Psalm 73:17 (WEB)
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Fathers and councils · 9
Jerome
“But you, with no less adroitness than perversity, make the life of this world illustrate that of the world to come, although we know full well that here unrighteousness prevails, there, righteousness:“until we go into the sanctuary of God, and understand the end of those men.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 17.
Read the whole comment“And again,“When I thought how I might know this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“Yet when I have thought of these things, like the prophet I have learned to say: “When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 16, 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…and ill with the good?), saying, “I thought to know this; it is too painful for me, until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand of the last things.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“No longer is labour before thee; because thou hast entered into the sanctuary of God, and hast understood for the last things.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“It is not therefore the punishments of the lower places, not the punishments of that fire everlasting after the resurrection, not those punishments which as yet…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 16, 17.
Read the whole comment“17. …And he hath done this; for he saith how long labour is before him; “until I enter into the sanctuary of God, and understand upon the last things” (ver. 17).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For when the power of human wrath hath killed the body, it hath nothing more to do: but God hath power both to punish here, and after the death of the body to send into Hell, and by the few who are thus taught, the vain and seductive prosperity of the wicked is judged to be greater wrath of God.…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28; Ps. lxxiii. 2, 3, 17.
Read the whole comment“For he had entered into the sanctuary of God, and had understood the end.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 17.
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