Psalm 22:15 (WEB)
My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
Fathers and councils · 9
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.50Book VII
“…to live is not death” But he boldly proclaims the truth, and says, “Our soul is bowed down to the dust;” and, “Thou hast brought me into the dust of death;” and similarly, “Who will deliver me from the body of this death?” also, “Who will change the body of our humiliation.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…as yet was present proclaiming also the impassible as subject to suffering, and declaring that He who was then in heaven had descended into the dust of death.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…by those who looked upon Him; and that His garments should be parted, and lots cast upon His raiment; and that He should be brought down to the dust of death with all [the other] things of a like nature—prophesied His coming in the character of a man as He entered Jerusalem, in which by His passion and crucifixion…” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The Psalm also ye have often heard, which says, And Thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo
““My strength dried up as a potsherd” (ver. 15).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For Passion and the furnace of tribulation had made Him stronger.…” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
Read the whole comment“Therefore did He kindle the lamp of prophecy, therefore did He send the Lord in the vessel, as it were, of the flesh, who should even say, “My strength is dried up like a potsherd.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
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Tertullian
“For, “as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so He opened not His mouth,” because “the Lord had given to Him a disciplined tongue, that he might know how and when it behoved Him to speak”—even that “tongue which clove to His jaws,” as the Psalm said it should, through His not speaking.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in that place: “My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue is glued to my jaws.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 15.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.50.