Psalm 50:9 (WEB)
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Fathers and councils · 4
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Shall I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”” — editor's note: Ps. l. 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
““But thy holocausts are always in My sight” (ver. 9).” — the author cites it
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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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Ephrem the Syrian
“It praised the Lamb, that had come to set free the flocks and the oxen from sacrifices: yea that Paschal Lamb, Who handed down and brought in the Passover of the Son.” — editor's note: Ps. l. 9; Is. lxvi. 3.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together with
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 5.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 5.
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1 Corinthians 12:21 takes up the words of Psalm 50:9 (10 words in common).