Psalm 4:5 (WEB)
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“But there, where I was angry with myself in my chamber, where I was inwardly pricked, where I had offered my “sacrifice,” slaying my old man, and beginning the resolution of a new life, putting my trust in Thee,—there hadst Thou begun to grow sweet unto me, and to “put gladness in my heart.”” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5.
Read the whole comment““Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and hope in the Lord” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.’” — editor's note: Ib. l. 14; iv. 5.
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John Chrysostom
““Offer to God,” it is said, “a sacrifice of righteousness” ( Ps. iv. 5 ); “Offer a sacrifice of praise” ( Ps. l. 14 ); and, “a sacrifice of praise shall glorify Me” ( Ps. l. 23 ), and, “the sacrifice of God is a broken…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For this cause the prophet also said, “Be ye angry, and sin not.”” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5, LXX., comp. Eph. iv. 26. “Stand in awe, and sin not,” in our version. Another part of the same Hebrew verb is, however, rendered “rage” in our…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…it refers also to the government and preservation of the things which He has made; as is shewn by the passage which says that He maketh His Angels Spirits, and that the earth is founded upon its steadfastness (though once for all these things were fixed and made) and that the thunder is made firm and the wind…” — editor's note: Ps. civ. 4, 5, LXX.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, The Institutes VIII.8Book VIII
“To be angry in this fashion even that prophet teaches us who had so completely expelled it from his own feelings that he would not retaliate even on his enemies and those delivered by God into his hands: when he says “Be ye angry and sin not.”” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5.
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“Finally, the next verse explains this to be the meaning more clearly: “The things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them on your beds:” i.e., whatever you think of in your hearts when sudden and nervous excitements rush in on you, correct and amend with wholesome sorrow, lying as it were on a…” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And again Menander, paraphrasing that Scripture, “Sacrifice a sacrifice of righteousness, and trust in the Lord,” thus writes:—” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the fourth Psalm too: “Sacrifice the sacrifice of righteousness, and hope in the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.8.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.8.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.8.
Cited together in The Institutes VIII.8.