Psalm 53:5 (WEB)
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
“Hence comes what the Psalmist elsewhere says, “God shall bruise the bones of them that please men.”” — editor's note: Ps. liii. 5.
Read the whole comment““Shall not all know that work iniquity, that devour My people for the food of bread”? (ver. 5).…There is therefore here a people of God that is being devoured.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…and, by the prophet, “They who please men are put to shame, because God hath despised them;” and again, “God hath broken the bones of those who please men;” and again the apostle, “Let us not be desirous of vainglory;” and still another time, “But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in…” — editor's note: Ps. liii. 5.
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Jerome
“Of these the psalm is sung daily: “The Lord will scatter the bones of them that please themselves.”” — editor's note: Ps. liii. 5, according to the Roman Psalter.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Not considering that it is declared, “They who please men are put to confusion, because God hath despised them;” and that Paul also has gloriously and sublimely uttered, “If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”” — editor's note: Ps. liii. 5.
Read the whole comment“In the fifty-second Psalm: “They that please men are confounded, because God hath made them nothing.”” — editor's note: Ps. liii. 5.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…bringing in a strange or interpolated God, viz.:—the Holy Ghost, and who fight so very hard for the letter, should know that they are afraid where no fear is; and I would have them clearly understand that their love for the letter is but a cloak for their impiety, as shall be shewn later on, when we refute their…” — editor's note: Ps. liii. 5.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.7.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.56 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.7.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.7.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.7.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.7.