Psalm 51:10 (WEB)
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Fathers and councils · 13
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.33Book VII
“But as the strength of our will is not sufficient to procure the perfectly pure heart, and as we need that God should create it, he therefore who prays as he ought, offers this petition to God, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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“…even our thoughts free from all defilement of sin, and although in prayer we say, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me,” so that we may behold Him with that “pure heart” to which alone is granted the privilege of seeing Him.” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
““A clean heart create in me, O God” (ver. 10).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“We shall be made truly free, then, when God fashions us, that is, forms and creates us anew, not as men—for He has done that already—but as good men, which His grace is now doing, that we may be a new creation in Christ Jesus, according as it is said: “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10
Read the whole comment“For this reason, moreover, he who said, “The bones that were brought low shall rejoice,” said before, “Thou shalt give joy and gladness to my hearing.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For knowing this, the Prophet says, as if interpreting himself, ‘Make me a clean heart, O God,’ lest filthy thoughts trouble me.” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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John Chrysostom
“For one may see that the same [thing] is called both Soul and Heart and Mind: for, saith he, “Create in me a clean heart, O God” ( Ps. li. 10 ), and one may often see that it [the soul] is called spirit.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Wherefore also the Prophet said, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” ( Ps. li. 10.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“It is called “Spirit of God,” “Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father,” “right Spirit,” “a leading Spirit.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
Read the whole comment“He is called upright, as “the Lord is upright,” in that He is Himself truth, and is Himself Righteousness, having no divergence nor leaning to one side or to the other, on account of the immutability of His substance.” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“David convinces me of this, when he prays that a clean heart may be created in him, and a right spirit renewed in his inward parts; meaning, I think, the mind and its movements or thoughts.” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This is the Spirit that David sought when he said, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, and establish me with Thy princely spirit.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 7–12.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.33.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.33.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.33.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.45.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.3.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 31.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 8.