Psalm 74:5 (WEB)
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
Fathers and councils · 3
Eusebius of Caesarea
“…this dry land, this widowed and deserted one, ‘whose gates they cut down with axes like wood in a forest, whom they broke down with hatchet and hammer,’ whose books also they destroyed, ‘burning with fire the sanctuary of God, and profaning unto the ground the habitation of his name,’ ‘whom all that passed by…” — editor's note: Psa. lxxiv. 5, 6.
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Gregory the Great
“…of the people, and to run in the lot of him of whom again it is said by the Psalmist, The ascents in his heart he hath disposed in the valley of tears (Ps. lxxxiii. 7); that is, that I should ascend inwardly all the more truly as I lay outwardly the more humbly in the valley of tears.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““They have set signs, their own signs, and they have not known” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.56.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.56.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.56.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.56.