Psalm 39:13 (WEB)
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”
Fathers and councils · 3
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“…low estate made like to the body of His glory,” and this of the blessed David: “For I am a sojourner upon the earth,” and “a stranger as all my fathers were;” so that we may in accordance with the Lord’s word be made like those of whom the Lord speaks to His Father in the gospel as follows: “They are not of the…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 19; Ps. xxxviii. (xxxix.) 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Grant me some remission, that I may be refreshed before I go hence” (ver. 13).” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And these two matters do not divide the Substance, as I understand it, but rather are divisions within the Substance.” — editor's note: Job xxxviii. 4, Ps. v. 10, xxxvi., cxxxix. 7–15, cxlii., Isa. xi. 1–3, xlviii. 16, Mal. iii. 6, Wisd. i. 2, John i. 14, iii. 24, xv. 26, xvi. 14, 15, Acts…
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