Psalm 40:8 (WEB)
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
““In the head of the Book it is written of me, that I should fulfil Thy will: O my God, I am willing, and Thy Law is within my heart” (ver. 8).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“There are some too who call all the canonical Scriptures together one book, because they agree in a very wondrous and divine unity.…” — editor's note: Ps. xl. 8. [i.e. the Bible. In the Middle Ages called rather “the Holy Library.”—C.]
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Or otherwise; He prays a second time that if Nineveh, or the Gentile world, cannot be saved unless the gourd, i.e. the Jews, be withered, His Father’s will may be done, which is not contrary to the Son’s will, who Himself speaks by the Prophet, “I am content to do thy will, God.” [Ps 40:8]” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:39–44 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:39–44 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:39–44 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:39–44 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:39–44 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 26:39–44 (4) (Catena Aurea).