Psalm 54:6 (WEB)
With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, LORD, for it is good.
Fathers and councils · 4
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.1Book VII
“For it is evidently the words and reasonings opposed to the truth that God destroys by His truth; so that when these are destroyed, all who are delivered from deception may go on with the prophet to say, “I will freely sacrifice unto Thee,” and may offer to the Most High a reasonable and smokeless sacrifice.” — editor's note: Ps. liv. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Voluntarily I will sacrifice to Thee” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For if the Apostolic teaching admonisheth a slave to serve a human master, not as though of necessity, but of good will, and by freely serving make himself in…” — editor's note: Ps. liv. 6.
Read the whole comment“By the freewill offerings of the mouth are well understood the sacrifices of praise, offered up in the confession of love, not from the fear of necessity; whence it is said, “a freewill offering will I offer Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. liv. 6.
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Cross-references · 1
Psalm 54:6 and Sirach 51:1 share the same wording (10 words).