Psalm 88:5 (WEB)
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
Fathers and councils · 13
Tertullian
“In short, again, a throne “unto the age” is more suitable to Christ, God’s Son, than to Solomon,—a temporal king, to wit, who reigned over Israel alone.” — editor's note: Or, “unto eternity.” Comp. 2 Sam. (2 Kings in LXX.) vii. 13; 1 Chron. xvii. 12; Ps. lxxxix. 3, 4, 29, 35, 36, 37 (in LXX. Ps. lxxxviii. 4, 5, 30, 36, 37, 38).
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He is called Dead, not as having abode among the dead, as all in Hades, but as being alone free among the dead.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Tombs were opened, and the dead arose, because of Him who was free among the dead; He sent forth His prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Now, therefore, the Dead is risen, He who was free among the dead, and the deliverer of the dead.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5: Cast off among the dead (R.V.); Cast away (Margin).
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Augustine of Hippo
“…us, for whom He, who thought it no robbery to be equal with Thee, “became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross;” He alone “free among the dead,” that had power to lay down His life, and power to take it again; for us was He unto Thee both Victor and Victim, and the Victor as being the Victim; for us was…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5; see sec. 68, note, above.
Read the whole comment““Free among the dead” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Whence He calls Himself in the Psalms, “Free among the dead.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5
Read the whole comment“Who then freeth from death and from bondage, save He, who is “Free among the dead”?” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5.
Read the whole comment“With efficacious merit does He deliver from this bondage of sin, who saith in the psalms: “I am become as a man without help, free among the dead.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 4, 5.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Hear the words ‘I became like a broken vessel,’ and ‘I became like a man that hath no strength, free among the dead.’”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 4, 5
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Ambrose of Milan
“Wherefore also He says: “I am become like a man without help, free among the dead.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. [lxxxvii.] 4, 5.
Read the whole comment““I am become as a man that hath no help, free among the dead.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. [lxxxvii.] 4, 5.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“But in Thy Resurrection Thou persuadest them concerning Thy Birth; since the womb was sealed, and the sepulchre closed up; being alike pure in the womb, and living in the sepulchre.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. 5.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 84.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.14.