Psalm 50:12 (WEB)
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
““If I shall be hungry, I will not tell thee” (ver. 12).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?” as if He should say, Supposing such things were necessary to me, I would never ask thee for what I have in my own hand.” — editor's note: Ps. l. 12, 13.
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John Chrysostom
“…the stress on their sacrifices; which thing He is also earnestly intimating unto them, when He sets down in brief what had been affirmed by all the prophets,saying, “Learn ye what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.”” — editor's note: See Hosea vi. 6; Ps. l. 8–15; Prov. xxi. 3; Isa. i. 11–15; Micah vi. 6, 7, 8.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
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Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.4.
