Psalm 68:5 (WEB)
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Fathers and councils · 6
Cyril of Jerusalem
“And if the Psalmist says, Let them be troubled from His countenance, the Father of the fatherless, and Judge of the widows, is it not manifest to all, that when God is called the Father of orphans who have lately lost their own fathers, He is so named not as begetting them of…” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 5. Cyril quotes as usual from the Septuagint (Ps. lxvii. 6), where the clause ταραχθήσονται ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, answering to nothing in the Hebrew,…
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Augustine of Hippo
“Lo, this also I confess unto Thy mercy, “Father of the fatherless,” that I bathed, and felt the same as before I had done so.” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For they that in the sight of men trouble you, “shall be troubled by the face of Him, the Father of orphans and Judge of widows” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Mark
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“He also refused to take sin for which He suffered, wherefore it is said of Him, I then paid the things that I never took. [Ps 68:5]” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“God is in His holy place: God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in an house, bringing forth them that are bound with might, and equally those who provoke unto anger, who dwell in the sepulchres: God, when Thou wentest forth in the sight of Thy people, in passing into the desert.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 1–7.
Read the whole comment“Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: “The Father of the orphans, and the Judge of the widows.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. 5.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Confessions IX.12.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 15:20–28 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Confessions IX.12.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.114.
