Psalm 26:5

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 5

  “For we fast by abstaining from wine and flesh, not because we abhor them as abominations, but because we look for our reward; that having scorned things sensible, we may enjoy a spiritual and intellectual feast; and that having now sown in tears we may reap in joy in the world to come.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxvi. 5.

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• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 19

  “And David prophesying of both these, said plainly of the first which was rejected, I have hated the Congregation of evil doers; but of the second which is built up he says in the same Psalm, Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thine house; and immediately afterwards, In the Congregations will I bless thee, O Lord.” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. 5.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 26

  ““And I will not sit with the ungodly” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 15

  “So that the prophet says: “I have hated the congregation of the malignant, and will not sit with the ungodly.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. [xxv.] 5.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 18

  “…of vanity; and with them who act iniquitously will I not enter”—this (has to do with “the church” of such as act ill—“and with the impious will I not sit;” and, “I will wash with the innocent mine hands, and Thine altar will I surround, Lord”—as being “a host in himself”—inasmuch as indeed “With an holy (man),…” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. 4, 5 (in LXX. xxv. 4, 5).

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Gregory of Nazianzus

• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 5

  “O fountains of tears, sowing in affliction that they might reap in joy.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxvi. 5.

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• Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 16

  “Let us sow in tears, that we may reap in joy, let us show ourselves men of Nineveh, not of Sodom.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxvi. 5.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13Book II

  “David writes, “They who sow,” then, “in tears, shall reap in joy;” those, namely, who confess in penitence.” — editor's note: Ps. cxxvi. 5.

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• Psalm 28:1

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Psalm 49:16

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Psalm 49:17

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Proverbs 11:5

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Proverbs 13:6

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Matthew 22:40

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 26.

• John 1:13

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 26.

• Hebrews 10:26

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Hebrews 10:27

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Psalm 5:7

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.

• Psalm 5:8

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.13.