Psalm 69:4 (WEB)
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
Fathers and councils · 12
Tertullian
“…the Spirit Himself of Christ was already singing, saying, “They were repaying me evil for good;” and, “What I had not seized I was then paying in full;” “They exterminated my hands and feet;” and, “They put into my drink gall, and in my thirst they slaked me with vinegar;” “Upon my vesture they did cast (the)…” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 4 (lxviii. 5 in LXX.).
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.12Conference XIII
“Jesus cries: “If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink;” the prophet also cries to Him: “I have laboured with crying, my jaws are become hoarse: mine eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxviii. (lxix.) 4.
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Gregory the Great
“But say ye with the prophet, Let them be turned back and put to shame that say unto me, Aha, Aha (Ps. lxix. 4).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“…by sinners, betrayed by a sinner; Himself Christ the Lord, of whom we cannot say that He hath any iniquity, for “those things which He robbed not He paid,” is made an objection to my answer.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Thus “there have been multiplied above the hairs of My head they that hate Me gratis” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Hence also in another psalm He says, “Then I restored that which I seized not;” meaning sin by the thing seized, because sin is laid hold of against what is lawful.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 4
Read the whole comment“But He had the Father’s commandment to die, as the very One of whom it had been foretold, “Then I paid for that which I took not away;” and so appointed to pay death to the full, while owing it nothing, and to redeem us from the death that was our due.” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 4.
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John Chrysostom
“And the prophet says, “for she hath received of the Lord’s hand her sins double” ( Isa. xl. 2 ); and again David, “Behold mine enemies that they are multiplied above the hairs of my head and [with] an unjust hatred have they hated me”: “and forgive Thou all my sins.” ( Ps. xxv. 19, 18.)” — editor's note: The words “above the hairs of my head” are part of another Psalm, xl. 12, or lxix. 4
Read the whole comment“And He stayeth not here either, but introduceth the Prophet ( Ps. xxxv. 19; lxix. 4 ), showing him proclaiming before of old time, and saying, that,” — the author cites it
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Jerome
““They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head,” and I am become “a proverb to them.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 4.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Praise to the Rich, Who paid for us all, that which He borrowed not; and wrote [His bill], and also became our debtor!” — editor's note: Ps. lxix. 4. Comp. Luke xvi. 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And again he adds, “The Lord will take pleasure in His people.”” — editor's note: Ps. clxix. 4.
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Cross-references · 31
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 79.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 27.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 2.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
Cited together in The Instructor II.4.
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