Psalm 30:9 (WEB)
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Fathers and councils · 7
Ambrose of Milan
“Is it this that My Blood hath gained, even as I spake in times past by the mouth of the prophet: ‘What profit is there in My Blood, for that I have gone down to corruption?’” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. 9.
Read the whole comment“Thou didst restrain the armed men, saying, If ye run together to arms, if those shut up in My temple are troubled, “what profit is there in My blood.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. [xxix.] 9.
Read the whole comment“Of them it says: What profit is there in my blood? that is: what advance has my justice made?” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. [xxix.] 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
““What profit is there in my blood, while I go down into corruption?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. 9.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Full well did He once, in a certain place, blame those who participated vainly in the shedding of His blood, while they did not delight themselves in the flesh of the Word, saying, ‘What profit is there in my blood, that I go down to corruption?’” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. 9.
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Jerome
“By their impious words they make of none effect the cross of Christ, subject the Son of God to the devil, and would have us now understand the Lord’s lamentation over sinners to apply to all men,“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. 9.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: “Shall the dust make confession to Thee?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxx. 9.
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Letters Letter 5.