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Psalm 45:5 (WEB)
Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Fathers and councils · 8

Origen, Against Celsus I.56Book I
“Thine arrows are pointed, O mighty One; the people will fall under Thee in the heart of the enemies of the King.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 2–5.
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Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews Chapter 9
““The greatness of thy right hand,” he says, “shall conduct thee”—the virtue to wit, of the spiritual grace from which the recognition of Christ is deduced.” — editor's note: See Ps. xlv. 5 (xliv. in LXX.).
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion III.13Book III
““Thine arrows are sharp;” everywhere Thy precepts fly about, Thy threatenings also, and convictions of heart, pricking and piercing each conscience.” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 45
““Thine arrows are sharp, are most powerful” (ver. 5); words that pierce the heart, that kindle love.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XII.6Book XII
“And again, “In the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under Thee;” as if he were to say, in the heart of Thy enemies.” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 5
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVII.16Book XVII
“Myrrh and drops, and cassia from Thy vestments, from the houses of ivory: out of which the daughters of kings have delighted Thee in Thine honor.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 1–9.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 113
“For it is His [reply], from whom the prophetic voice had issued before, “Make for thy goal (literally, take aim), and advance prosperously and reign, because of truth, and meekness, and righteousness.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 4. In the Hebrew text, at the close of verse 4 and beginning of verse 5 (Eng. Ver. verses 3 and 4), there is a repetition of the word והדרך, which in…
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Ephrem the Syrian, Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 1
“The wise man, if so be he that watches, one of two things chooseth him; either takes sweet, moderate, sleep, or a holy vigil keeps.” — editor's note: Ps. xlv. 5.
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