Psalm 46:4 (WEB)
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Fathers and councils · 10
Cyril of Jerusalem
“For concerning our soul the Scripture says, His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth: and of the same soul it says again, Which formeth the spirit of man within him.” — editor's note: Ps. cxlvi. 4.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
““Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation; his spirit shall go forth and return to his earth; in that day all their thoughts perish.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlvi. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But now not in his own voice, but in Thine who sentest Thy Spirit from above; through Him who “ascended up on high,” and set open the flood-gates of His gifts, that the force of His streams might make glad the city of God.” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. 4.
Read the whole comment““The streams of the river make glad the City of God” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Of that river the Psalmist saith in another passage, “The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. 4.
Read the whole comment“God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. 4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Elijah went first to Beersheba, to the mysteries and sacraments of the divine and holy Law, next he is sent to the brook, to the stream of the river which makes glad the City of God.” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. [xlv.] 4.
Read the whole comment“And not only a river, but also one of copious stream and overflowing greatness, as also David said: “The stream of the river makes glad the city of God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. [xlv.] 4.
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Jerome
“…we are to praise and to seek is not that which has slain the prophets and shed the blood of Christ, but that which is made glad by the streams of the river, which is set upon a mountain and so cannot be hid, which the apostle declares to be a mother of the saints, and in which he rejoices to have his citizenship…” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. 4.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“How should the boundless River that makes glad the city of God have been dipped in a little water!” — editor's note: Ps. xlvi. 4.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in The City of God XI.1.
Cited together in The City of God XI.1.