Psalm 74:6 (WEB)
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
Fathers and councils · 4
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
““As if in a forest of trees with axes, they have cut down the doors thereof at once; with mattock and hammer they have thrown Her down” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Now ye see the overthrow of that nation of the Jews: already out of another Psalm ye have heard, “with axe and hammer they have thrown her down.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiv. 6.
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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.