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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 37:4

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Psalm 37:4 (WEB)

Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Fathers and councils · 7

Augustine of Hippo

Basil the Great

John Chrysostom

  • “…spiritual things, and, as the Prophet says, delight ourselves in the Lord; “Delight thyself in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart” ( Ps. xxxvii. 4 ); that so that we may enjoy the good things both here and hereafter, through the grace and lovingkindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom and…” — the author cites it

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Ambrose of Milan

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…understand the grace of the permitted delight to be one,—that very actual Good, which in truth is “every” good;—David, when he says, “Delight thou in the Lord,” and Solomon, when he names Wisdom herself (which is the Lord) “a tree of life.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvii. 4.

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Cross-references · 23

  • Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.20.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.20.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.

  • Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 21.

  • Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.

  • Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.

  • Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.31.

  • Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 8.

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