Psalm 80:12 (WEB)
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Fathers and councils · 4
Eusebius of Caesarea
“…all that passed by upon the way plucked, and whose fences they broke down, whom the boar out of the wood ravaged, and on which the savage wild beast fed,’ now by the wonderful power of Christ, when he wills it, has become like a lily.” — editor's note: Ibid. lxxx. 12, 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Wherefore hast Thou thrown down her enclosure?” (ver. 12).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“For indeed the Scripture is ever wont to call the law a hedge; as the prophet saith: “Thou hast broken down her hedge, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck off her grapes:”and, “I have set a hedge about it:”and Paul, “Having broken down the middle wall of the hedge.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxx. 12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“I desire to learn what is this fashion of innovation in things Concerning the Church, which allows anyone who likes, or the passerby, as the Bible says, to tear asunder the flock that has been well led, and to plunder it by larcenous attacks, or rather by piratical and fallacious teachings.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxx. 12.
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