Psalm 92:12 (WEB)
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
““The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree” (ver. 12).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“You are a light of the world, and a tree ever green.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 1–3; xcii. 12–15.
Read the whole comment“God even in His own Scripture says: “The righteous shall flourish like the phœnix;” that is, shall flourish or revive, from death, from the grave—to teach you to believe that a bodily substance may be recovered even from the fire.” — editor's note: Δίκαιος ὡς φοίνιξ ἀνθήσει, Sept. Ps. xcii. 12.—“like a palm tree” (A.V.). We have here a characteristic way of Tertullian’s quoting a scripture which has even…
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Ambrose of Milan
“In which, as the prophet said: “The righteous shall flourish as the palm-tree, and shall be multiplied as the cedar which is in Libanus.”” — editor's note: Ps. xcii. [xci.] 12.
Read the whole comment“…words, He enters a garden, that He might plant the young olive-trees in the house of the Lord, and that He might water the just flourishing like a palm-tree, and the fruitful vine with the stream of His Blood.” — editor's note: Ps. xcii. [xci.] 12.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 13.