With commemoration of Gods former benefites, 5. Christs Incarnation is prophecied, 9. bringing peace and saluation, 11. mercie and iustice concurring together.
1Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.Ai figliuoli di Core, salmo.Vnto the end, to the children of Core, a Psalme.In finem, filiis Core. Psalmus. 2Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.Signore, tu hai voluto bene alla tua terra, tu hai tolta la schiavitù di Giacobbe.O Lord thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captiuitie of Iacob.Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam; / avertisti captivitatem Jacob. 3Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins.Tu hai rimessi i peccati del popol tuo: hai ricoperti tutti i loro peccati.Thou hast forgeuen the iniquitie of thy people: thou hast couered al their sinnes.Remisisti iniquitatem plebis tuæ; / operuisti omnia peccata eorum. 4Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.Hai raddolcito tutto il tuo sdegno: hai sedato il furore di tua indignazione.Thou hast mitigated al thy wrath: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thine indignation.Mitigasti omnem iram tuam; / avertisti ab ira indignationis tuæ. 5Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us.Convertici, o Dio nostro Salvatore, e rimovi da noi l'ira tua.Conuert vs ô God our sauiour: and auert thy wrath from vs.Converte nos, Deus salutaris noster, / et averte iram tuam a nobis. 6Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation?Sarai tu irato con noi in eterno? o prolungherai l'ira tua di generazione in generazione?Wilt thou be wrath with vs for euer? or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation vnto generation?Numquid in æternum irasceris nobis ? / aut extendes iram tuam a generatione in generationem ? 7Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.O Dio, tu volgendoti a noi ci renderai la vita: e il popol tuo in te si rallegrerà.O God thou being turned shalt quicken vs: and thy people shal reioyce in thee.Deus, tu conversus vivificabis nos, / et plebs tua lætabitur in te. 8Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.Fa vedere a noi, o Signore, la tua misericordia, e da a noi la tua salute.Shew vs ô Lord thy mercie and giue vs thy saluation.Ostende nobis, Domine, misericordiam tuam, / et salutare tuum da nobis. 9I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart.Fa ch'io ascolti quello, che meco parlerà il Signore Dio, perocché egli parlerà di pace col popol suo, E co' suoi santi, e con quelli, che al cuor loro ritornano.I wil heare what our Lord God wil speake in me: because he wil speake peace vpon his people. And vpon his saincts: and vpon them, that are conuerted to the hart.Audiam quid loquatur in me Dominus Deus, / quoniam loquetur pacem in plebem suam, / et super sanctos suos, / et in eos qui convertuntur ad cor.
10Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.Certamente la salute di lui è vicina a color, che lo temono: e abiterà nella nostra terra la gloria.But yet his saluation is nigh to them that feare him: that glorie may inhabite in our land.Verumtamen prope timentes eum salutare ipsius, / ut inhabitet gloria in terra nostra. 11Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.La misericordia, e la verità si sono incontrate insieme: si son dato il bacio la giustizia, e la pace.Mercie and truth haue met each other: iustice and peace haue kissed.Misericordia et veritas obviaverunt sibi; / justitia et pax osculatæ sunt. 12Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.La verità spuntò dalla terra, e dal cielo ci ha mirati la giustizia.Truth is risen out of the earth: and iustice hath looked downe from heauen.Veritas de terra orta est, / et justitia de cælo prospexit. 13For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit.Perocché darà il Signore la sua benignità, e la nostra terra produrrà il suo frutto.For our Lord certes wil geue benignitie: and our land shal giue her fruite.Etenim Dominus dabit benignitatem, / et terra nostra dabit fructum suum. 14Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the way.La giustizia camminerà dinanzi a lui, e porrà nella retta strada i suoi passi.Iustice shal walke before him: and shal set his steppes in the way.Justitia ante eum ambulabit, / et ponet in via gressus suos.
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Psalm. It resembles the 66th [psalm], and seems to have been sung when the first-fruits were brought to the temple. Most people explain it of the captives delivered, (Theodoret; Du Pin) and of Christ's redemption. (Eusebius; St. Augustine) (Calmet)
Berthier
David foresaw the afflictions and captivity of his people; and was aware of the miseries of mankind, to be removed by the Messias alone. (Berthier)
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Blessed. Hebrew, "taken into favour," or "hast rendered fruitful." (Judea) (Calmet)
Worthington
God had bestowed many benefits upon his people, rescuing them from the Egyptian bondage, and not punishing them as much as they deserved. (Worthington)
Menochius
Others explain it of the captivity at Babylon, or under the devil. (Menochius)
Berthier
David speaks of the former event by the prophetic spirit, and the latter misfortune was always deplorable, and to be terminated only by the Messias. (Berthier)
Du Hamel
The redemption of man was prefigured by the liberation of the Jews. (Du Hamel)
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Convert. Bring back the remnant of thy people, dispersed through the world. Only a few returned under Cyrus; the rest came back by degrees principally during the reigns of Hystaspes and Alexander the Great. (Calmet, Diss.)
While we continue unconverted, we are objects of God's wrath. (Berthier) (Lamentations 5:21.)
Haydock
Our Saviour. Septuagint, "of our salvations." St. Jerome, "our Jesus." (Haydock)
Worthington
Saviour of mankind, mitigate thy wrath against us. (Worthington)
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Plut
Ever. The Pythagoreans settled their differences before sunset. (Plut.)
Haydock
"Cherish not, mortals, an immortal wrath." (Aristotle, Rhet. 2:21.) (Haydock)
Calmet
As long, O God, as we see not our brethren restored, we shall think that thou art not perfectly reconciled to us. (Calmet)
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Turn, conversus. The ancient psalters read convertens. "Converting, O God, thou wilt bring us to life," free us from captivity, and redeem us from sin by Jesus Christ, the conqueror of death. (Calmet)
Worthington
Before their conversion sinners lie dead in guilt. (Worthington)
Du Hamel
O God, thou wilt again restore us to life. (Du Hamel)
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Salvation. By Cyrus, or rather by the Messias, whose time drew near. (Calmet)
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St. Augustine
Hear. Hitherto the prophet had been distracted by the thought of his people's misery. (St. Augustine)
In me, is not expressed in Hebrew.
Calmet
Heart. Some of the ancients add, "to him." (Calmet)
Haydock
The Septuagint seem to have had a copy different from the present Hebrew, "But let them not turn again to folly;" (Protestants; Haydock) though the sense is much the same. They may have read lobom lie, "their heart to God," (Berthier) or lobsle, (Calmet) "the heart, Sela;" instead of lecisla, "to folly." (Haydock)
Calmet
Those Israelites who had given way to idolatry, were little inclined to return to their own country, at the invitation of Cyrus. Though Christ came to save all, only men of good will obtained his peace, Luke 2:4., and John 1:5. (Calmet)
Berthier
There is no peace for the wicked, Isaias 48:22., and Philippians 4:9. (Berthier)
Menochius
The redemption of the world was here revealed. (Worthington) (Menochius)
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Land. After the captivity, Judea flourished by degrees. But the glory of the second temple consisted in the presence of the Messias, Aggeus 2:8. (Calmet)
Worthington
Those who were moved with godly fear, embraced the gospel, in order to be saved, while many rejected it through their own fault. (Worthington)
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Calmet
Kissed. Or, "embraced," like friends, as the ancient psalters read. The people practised these virtues after the captivity, and more particularly in the Church of Christ. (Calmet)
Menochius
At the time appointed, He reconciled sinners to his Father, having satisfied his justice, (Berthier) and displayed his own mercy. (Menochius)
Worthington
Thus justice is strictly observed, and peace made between God and man. (Worthington)
Haydock
The justice of the Father and the mercy of the Son kiss each other. (Du Hamel) (Haydock)
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Worthington
Earth. Good men preserve a clear conscience. (Worthington)
Menochius
Virtues of every description (Menochius) are become common among God's people, (Calmet) particularly Christians, though our Saviour may here be styled justice. (Menochius)
Lyranus
He was born of a pure virgin. (St. Jerome) (Lyranus)
Haydock
Jam redit et virgo; redeunt saturnia regna. (Virgil, Ec. iv.) (Haydock)
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Worthington
Fruit. By imitation, (Calmet) "we may give birth to Jesus Christ," says St. Jerome. God bestows grace, and so men yield fruit. (Worthington)
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Muis
Him. The holy John the Baptist shall prepare the way of the Lord. (Lyranus) (Muis)
Symmachus
Hebrew, "each one's justice," etc. (Symmachus)
Calmet
After the captivity religion shall reign. If we wish to enter heaven, we must follow virtue. (Calmet)
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God bestowed manie great benefites vpon the people of Israel:
he brought them out of the bondage of Aegypt.
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Remitted their manifold sinnes:
pardoned also a great part of due punishment.
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As thou hast soared thy peculiar people, so we besech thee ô God creator and general Sauiour of al mankind,
mitigate thy wrath towards vs al
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Til God first shew his mercie, sinners lye dead in guilt of sinne, but by his grace they are sturred vp, and quickned:
and ioyfully returne to God.
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The wordes of the prophet,
signifying that God had reueled vnto him the redemption of mankind.
Not al men are iustified, and saued, but those that are hartely and sincerely conuerted.
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Though al be not saued (because manie wil not cooperate to Gods grace) yet very manie hauing the feare of God, which is the beginning of godlie wisdom, freely accept of Gods mercie, and so •he Church is gloriously propagated.
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VVheras Gods mercie would saue al, and his truth, or iustice requireth that sinnes be duly punished, by Christs Passion and death, sufficient satisfaction is offered for al sinnes, and those that wil be partakers by penance, and conformitie to Gods law, may haue remission,
and so iustice is obserued, and peace made betwen God and his subiects.
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Integritie of conscience reigneth in good men,
God sending iust meanes from heauen to saue them.
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God geueth grace,
and so men yeld fruict.
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Yea they walke in iustice, and right path of Gods law.
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.2
2. The Prophet singeth to Him of the future, and useth words as it were of past time: he speaks of things future as if already done, because with God that which is future has already taken place.…“Lord, Thou hast been favourable unto Thy land” (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.3
3. For how did He turn away the captivity of Jacob? See, how that that setting free is spiritual, see how that it is done inwardly. “Thou hast forgiven,” he saith, “the iniquity of Thy people: Thou hast covered all their sins” (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.3
… So as not to see them. How didst Thou not see them? So as not to take vengeance on them. Thou wast unwilling to see our sins: and therefore sawest Thou them not, because Thou wouldest not see them: “Thou hast covered all their sins.” “Thou hast appeased all Thy anger: Thou hast turned Thyself from Thy wrathful indignation” (
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san Girolamo † 420 d.C. The Letters of St. Jerome 122.1
… Ezekiel describes God as swearing, that if we refuse to believe His promise in regard to our salvation we may at least believe His oath. It is with full confidence that the righteous man prays and says, “Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease,”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants 2.5
… when we turn away from Him, He forsakes us. But then He helps us even to turn to Him; and this, certainly, is something that light does not do for the eyes of the body. When, therefore, He commands us in the words, “Turn ye unto me, and I will turn unto you,” and we say to Him, “Turn us, O God of our salvation,”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants 2.33
… and unless this defect were overcome by assisting grace, no one would turn to holiness; nor unless it were healed by efficient grace would any one enjoy the peace of righteousness. But whose grace is it that conquers and heals, but His to whom the prayer is directed: “Convert us, O God of our salvation, and turn Thine anger away from us?”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on Grace and Free Will 10
… Now the persons who hold this opinion fail to observe that, unless our turning to God were itself God’s gift, it would not be said to Him in prayer, “Turn us again, O God of hosts;” and, “Thou, O God, wilt turn and quicken us;” and again, “Turn us, O God of our salvation,”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 68.28
… 22 ): or, as some copies have, “Out of Basan I will turn.” For He turneth that we may be safe, of whom above hath been said, “God of our healths, and God of saving men.” For to Him elsewhere also is said, “O God of virtues, turn Thou us, and show Thy face, and safe we shall be.” Also in another place, “Turn us, O God of our healths.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.4
4. And as these things are said of the future, though the sound of the words is past, it follows: “Turn us, O God of our salvation” (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. The Confessions 10.43
… that because the reward of righteousness is life and peace, He might, by righteousness conjoined with God, cancel the death of justified sinners, which He willed to have in common with them.
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.5
… “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive;” seeing this the Prophet saith, “Be not angry with us for ever, nor stretch out Thy wrath from one generation to another.” The first generation was mortal by Thy wrath: the second generation shall be immortal by Thy mercy.…
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on Grace and Free Will 10
… Now the persons who hold this opinion fail to observe that, unless our turning to God were itself God’s gift, it would not be said to Him in prayer, “Turn us again, O God of hosts;” and, “Thou, O God, wilt turn and quicken us;”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints 1.4
… how, being turned away from the faith which he was destroying, and being vehemently opposed to it, he was suddenly by a more powerful grace converted to it, by the conversion of Him, to whom as One who would do this very thing it was said by the prophet, “Thou wilt turn and quicken us;”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.6
6. “O God, Thou shalt turn us again, and make us alive” (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on Nature and Grace 36
… Let us then carry out the concluding injunction of this same psalm, “Blessed are all they that trust in Him,” so that He may Himself indeed effect and Himself show His own way in us, to whom it is said, “Show us Thy mercy, O Lord;”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.6
… What light is that? “I,” saith He, “am the Light of the world.” He who saith unto thee, “I am the Light of the world,” calls thee to Himself. When He calls thee, He converts thee: when He converts thee, He healeth thee: when He hath healed thee, thou shalt see thy Converter, unto whom it is said, “Show us Thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation” (
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sant'Atanasio di Alessandria † 373 d.C. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.) 3.23.2
… and, far from granting that He spoke this as a Son, He ranks Him with all things made as having learned it as they have. For if the Son said, ‘I am in the Father and the Father in Me,’ because His discourses were not His own words but the Father’s, and so of His works, then,—since David says, ‘I will hear what the Lord God shall say in me
san Gregorio Nazianzeno † 389 d.C. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen 40
… for even though we might not worship lust, yet our soul would be defiled. If there be beam or mote, let us purge it away, that we may be able to see those of others also. Let us be enlightened in our ears; let us be enlightened in our tongue, that we may hearken what the Lord God will speak,
sant'Ambrogio † 397 d.C. On the Duties of the Clergy 3.1.2
… Thus Moses in his silence spoke, and in his ease laboured hard. And were his labours greater than his times of quiet, who, being in the mount for forty days, received the whole law? And in that solitude there was One not far away to speak with him. Whence also David says: “I will hear what the Lord God will say within me.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 39.16
16. “I became dumb; and I opened not my mouth” ( ver. 9 ). But it was to guard against “the foolish man,” that “I became dumb, and opened not my mouth.” For to whom should I tell what is going on within me? “For I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me; for He will speak peace unto His people.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 50.23
… and thou that writ be heard thyself, first hear thyself; and speak what a certain man doth speak in another Psalm,
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.7
… For whatever man would turn unto himself the hearts of men, he falleth with them. Which is better, that thou fall with him unto whom thou turnest thyself, or that thou stand with Him with whom thou turnest thyself? Our joy, our peace, our rest, the end of all troubles, is none but God: blessed are “they that turn their hearts unto Him.”
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sant'Ignazio di Antiochia † 108 d.C. Epistle to the Trallians: Shorter and Longer Versions 7
… ye become as “a snare upon a watch-tower, and as a net which is spread out.” For “he that does not heal himself in his own works, is the brother of him that destroys himself.” If, therefore, ye also put away conceit, arrogance, disdain, and haughtiness, it will be your privilege to be inseparably united to God, for “He is nigh unto those that fear Him.”
san Metodio d'Olimpo † 311 d.C. Oration on the Palms 1
… Come then, every one, and let us rejoice in the Lord; O come, all ye people, and let us clap our hands, and make a joyful noise to God our Saviour, with the voice of melody.
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.8
8. “Nevertheless, His salvation is nigh them that fear Him” (
Giovanni Cassiano † 435 d.C. The Conferences of John Cassian 1.19
… Or when the prophet says: “I will hearken what the Lord God will say in me.”
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san Girolamo † 420 d.C. The Letters of St. Jerome 122.3
3. Think how great that weeping must be which deserves to be compared to a flood of waters. Whosoever so weeps and says with the prophet Jeremiah “let not the apple of mine eye cease” shall straightway find the words fulfilled of him: “mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other;”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants 2.31
… Therefore, as “he that glorieth must glory in the Lord,” it comes from His mercy, not their merit, that God wills to impart this to some, but from His truth that He wills not to impart it to others. For to sinners punishment is justly due, because “the Lord God loveth mercy and truth,” and “mercy and truth are met together;”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 72.6
… for the mountains receive this for His people.…“Let the mountains, therefore, receive peace for the people, and the hills justice:” so that in this manner, both being at one, there may come to pass that which hath been written, “justice and peace have kissed one another.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.9
… they kiss one another: if thou love not the friend of peace, peace itself will not love thee, nor come unto thee. For what great thing is it to desire peace? Every bad man longeth for peace. For peace is a good thing. But do righteousness, for righteousness and peace kiss one another, they quarrel not together.…
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 89.24
… mercy, in pitying the wretched; truth, in not judging unjustly. Let not truth rob you of mercy, nor mercy hinder truth: for if through mercy you shall have judged contrary to truth, or by rigorous truth shall have forgotten mercy, you will not be walking in the path of God, where “mercy and truth meet together.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 104.12
… for all that teaching which in all this time is dispensed passeth.…Unless perchance your love thinketh that in that city to which it is said, “Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, praise thy God, O Sion; for He hath made strong the bars of thy gates;” when the bars are now strengthened and the city closed, whence, as we said some time since,
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sant'Ireneo di Lione † 202 d.C. Against Heresies 3.5.1
… As also David says, prophesying His birth from a virgin, and the resurrection from the dead, “Truth has sprung out of the earth.”
san Cirillo di Gerusalemme † 386 d.C. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril 14
… and He hath said, I am the vine ! He was planted therefore in the earth in order that the curse which came because of Adam might be rooted out. The earth was condemned to thorns and thistles: the true Vine sprang up out of the earth, that the saying might be fulfilled, Truth sprang up out of the earth, and righteousness looked down from heaven
san Girolamo † 420 d.C. The Letters of St. Jerome 58.3
… The original persecutors, indeed, supposed that by polluting our holy places they would deprive us of our faith in the passion and in the resurrection. Even my own Bethlehem, as it now is, that most venerable spot in the whole world of which the psalmist sings: “the truth hath sprung out of the earth,”
san Girolamo † 420 d.C. The Letters of St. Jerome 147.4
… How great must be the sin beside which seduction and adultery are insignificant? Miserable wretch that you are! when you enter the cave wherein the Son of God was born, where truth sprang out of the earth and the land did yield her increase,
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. The Confessions 13.17
21. But as for the souls that thirst after Thee, and that appear before Thee (being by other bounds divided from the society of the sea), them Thou waterest by a secret and sweet spring, that the earth may bring forth her fruit, and, Thou, O Lord God, so commanding, our soul may bud forth works of mercy according to their kind,
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. On the Holy Trinity 4.18
… And until this shall take place, and in order that it may take place,—because we adapt the faith of belief to things which have a beginning, as in things eternal we hope for the truth of contemplation, lest the faith of mortal life should be at discord with the truth of eternal life,—the Truth itself, co-eternal with the Father, took a beginning from earth,
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John 34.9
… For His spittle did before mingle with the earth, by which the eyes of him who was born blind were anointed. We, too, have been born blind of Adam, and have need of Him to enlighten us. He mixed spittle with clay: “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” He mixed spittle with earth; hence it was predicted, “Truth has sprung from the earth;”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John 41.1
… The truth is bread, which refreshes our minds and fails not; changes the eater, and is not itself changed into the eater. The truth itself is the Word of God, God with God, the only-begotten Son. This Truth was for our sake clothed with flesh, that He might be born of the Virgin Mary, and the prophecy fulfilled, “Truth has sprung from the earth.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 45.12
12. “Because of truth, meekness, and righteousness.” Truth was restored unto us, when “the Truth sprung out of the earth: and Righteousness looked out from heaven.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.10
10. “Truth hath sprung out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven” (
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 99.1
… who, at a seasonable time came unto us, the first time, in humility; at the second, destined to come in exaltation.…For thus it is said in the Psalms: “Truth shall flourish out of the earth: and righteousness hath looked down from heaven.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 103.16
16. “Look, how wide the east is from the west; so far hath He set our sins from us” ( ver. 12 ). They who know the Sacraments know this; nevertheless, I only say what all may hear. When sin is remitted, thy sins fall, thy grace riseth; thy sins are as it were on the decline, thy grace which freeth thee on the rise. “Truth springeth from the earth.”
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Afraate † 346 d.C. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations 1.7
… And with regard to the faith about which I said that He laid His faith in the earth, this David proclaimed beforehand about Christ. For He said:— Faith shall spring up from the earth .
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. On Continence 7
… But if the Law, as a schoolmaster, lead unto Grace one made an offender, as though for this purpose more grievously wounded, that he may desire a Physician; against the baneful sweetness, whereby lust prevailed, the Lord gives a sweetness that worketh good, that by it Continence may the more delight, and “our land giveth her fruit,”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants 2.27
… and thus he is cured of vanity which elated him, and knows how truly it is said not of this earth of ours, but spiritually, “The Lord will give kindness and sweet grace, and our land shall yield her fruit.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace 4
… and in addition to this, it is shown them what they ought to do, so that when they have done it as it ought to be done—that is, with the love and the delight of righteousness—they may rejoice in having received “the sweetness which the Lord has given, that their land should yield her increase.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John 27.4
… Therefore Son of man He began to be here on earth, where He took flesh from the earth. For which cause it was said prophetically, “Truth is sprung from the earth.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 68.11
… For the needy he is, for he hath been made weak, in order that he may be made perfect: he hath acknowledged himself indigent, that he may be replenished. This is that sweetness, whereof in another place is said, “The Lord shall give sweetness, and our land shall give her fruit:”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.12
12. “For the Lord shall give sweetness, and our land shall give her increase” (
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 119.13
103. Consider then what followeth: “O how sweet are Thy words unto my throat!” ( ver. 103 ). Or, as it is more literally rendered from the Greek, “Thy utterances, above honey and the honeycomb unto my mouth.” This is that sweetness which the Lord giveth, “So that the earth yield her increase:”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 119.16
… that is, that he may not, through his dread of suffering evils, yield unto his adversaries to do evil. For he receiveth power of endurance, which guardeth him from being overcome with pain, from Him from whom he receiveth the victory over lust, which preventeth his being seduced by pleasure.
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 143.7
7. “I stretched forth,” saith he, “my hands to Thee: my soul is as a land without water to Thee” ( ver. 6 ). Rain upon me, saith he, to bring forth from me good fruit. “For the Lord shall give sweetness, that our land may give her fruit.”
Giovanni Cassiano † 435 d.C. The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius 5.5
… “From my mother’s womb Thou art my God:” showing clearly that He who was Lord and man was never separate from God: in whom even in the Virgin’s womb the fulness of the Godhead dwelt. As elsewhere the same Prophet says: “Truth has sprung from the earth and righteousness hath looked down from heaven,”
papa san Leone I Magno † 461 d.C. Letters 124
Give up, my sons, give up these suggestions of the devil. God’s Truth nothing can impair, but the Truth does not save us except in our flesh. For, as the prophet says, “truth is sprung out of the earth
84:13
san Gregorio Nazianzeno † 389 d.C. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen 16.20
… Intreat for our past wickedness: be our surety for the future. Present a people purified by suffering and fear. Beg for bodily sustenance, but beg rather for the angels’ food that cometh down from heaven. So doing, thou wilt make God to be our God, wilt conciliate heaven, wilt restore the former and latter rain: the Lord shall show loving-kindness
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 106.5
… For “felicity” some copies read “sweetness;” as in the former passage, “For He is gracious;” where others read, “for He is sweet.” And it is the same word in the Greek, as is elsewhere read, “The Lord shall show sweetness:”
84:14
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 85.13
13. “For righteousness shall go before him, and he shall direct his steps in the way” (
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