Psalm 68:26 (WEB)
“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
Fathers and councils · 5
Gregory of Nyssa
“For the great David calls righteousness the “mountains of God,” His judgments “deeps,” and the teachers in the Churches “fountains,” saying “Bless God the Lord from the fountains of Israel”; and guilelessness he calls “hills,” as he shows when he speaks of their skipping like lambs.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 26 (LXX.).
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Of old the Psalmist sang, Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, (ye that are) from the fountains of Israel.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 26: ἐν ἐκκλησίαις.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…sense, and by these words should conceive in his mind certain choral bands of wantonness, he continueth and saith, “In the Churches bless ye the Lord” (ver. 26): as though he were saying, wherefore, when ye hear of damsels, players on timbrels, do ye think of wanton pleasures?” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“But I suppose that it is not the place that the Lord here refers to, but the motive of him that prays; for it is praiseworthy to pray in the congregation of the faithful, as it is said, “in your Churches bless ye God.” [Ps. 68:26]” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“In the sixty-seventh Psalm He says again: “In the congregations bless ye the Lord God.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 26.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 6:5–6 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 6:5–6 (3) (Catena Aurea).