Psalm 36:6 (WEB)
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
Fathers and councils · 18
Gregory of Nyssa
“For the great David calls righteousness the “mountains of God,” His judgments “deeps,” and the teachers in the Churches “fountains,” saying “Bless God the Lord from the fountains of Israel”; and guilelessness he calls “hills,” as he shows when he speaks of their skipping like lambs.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment“…names, with a suitable significance, “mountains” and “hills,” calling righteousness the “mountains” of God, and speaking of His judgments as “deeps,” and giving the name of “earth” to that which is sown by the Word and brings forth abundant fruit; or in that sense in which we are taught by David to…” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxxvi. 6
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Augustine of Hippo
“What was it that Thou didst then, O my God, and how unsearchable are the depths of Thy judgments!” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6, and Rom. xi. 33.
Read the whole comment“For Thou correctest man for iniquity, and “Thy judgments are a great deep.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment“Nor then doth the earth, which Thou hast founded above the waters, stand in need of that flying kind which at Thy word the waters brought forth.” — editor's note: “Fundasti super aquas,” which is the Old Ver. of Ps. cxxxvi. 6. Augustin sometimes uses a version with “firmavit terram,” which corresponds to the LXX., but…
Read the whole comment“For we read, “Thy justice is as the mountains of God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6. [See Tertullian, p. 364, A.N.F. vol. iii.—C.]
Read the whole comment“Extend Thy mercy to them that know Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6–10.
Read the whole comment““Thy Righteousness is like the mountains of God: Thy Judgments are a great deep” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Furthermore, it is said in a certain passage, “Thy judgments are a mighty abyss,” Scripture meaning to suggest that the judgments of God are incomprehensible.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Thence they are so called in another passage: “Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment“With respect, therefore, to that righteousness which is the greater, it is said through the prophet, “Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God:” and this may well mean that the one Master alone fit to teach matters of so great importance teaches on a mountain.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment““For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor?” and, “Thy judgments are as a great depth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment“And many are the judgments of God; as it is said in the psalm, “Thy judgments are a great deep.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment“As it is also said in the psalm, “Thy judgments are as a great deep.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
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Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §12On the Psalms
“The single-minded are the sheep of Christ, and these God saves according to the word: “O Lord, Thou preservest man and beast.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
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Jerome
“Truly the judgments of the Lord are a great deep.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
Read the whole comment“…seeing that we die at different ages; my only answer—an unwelcome one, I fancy—will be in the words of scripture: “The judgments of God are a great deep,” and “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Discourse awhile on our present heavy blow, about the just judgments of God, whether we grasp their meaning, or are ignorant of their great deep.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. 6.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.1.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.1.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.4.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.12.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §12.