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John ChrysostomPG 55:549expounds v.2“Ειπεν αφρων εν καρδια αυτου· Ουκ εστι Θεος. διεφθαρησαν και εβδελυχθησαν εν ανομιαις, ουκ εστι ποιων αγαθον.”On Psalm 13: «The fool has said in his heart, there is no God»
1Ps 52:1
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1069…with the aforementioned relates matters pertaining to doeg in his words b why boastest thou thyself in mischief o mighty man and the rest which for this reason cannot because of its bitterness stand in the… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:1039D…cludes thus: "And just as we believe there are eternal torments for the devil and all deniers and impious men, who have said in their heart: There is no God [Ps. LII, 1], so we think the judgment of the Judge… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:855…h to the end for understanding a psalm of david when doeg the edomite came and announced to saul and said to him david has come to the house of… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:489…a or when the ziphites came or when doeg the edomite came and told saul or in the days when the lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:561…historical inscription which runs as follows to the end an understanding for david when doeg the edomite came and reported to saul and said to him david has come into the house of abimelech through these… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:589…h on psalm li h a to the end for understanding to david when doeg the edomite came and told saul and said to him david is come into the house of abimelech b why dost… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:549C…, O foolish and irrational man—for no other title is fitting for an atheist, if not that of the foolish; for the fool has said in his heart, There is no God (Ps. 52:1)—he did not say what you have understoo… Cosmas Indicopleustes fl. c. 535–550PG 88:645D…y of the soul. Scholion of Abbot Isaiah 10. Let us contend, therefore, brethren, against sloth, and let us rend from ourselves the veil of darkness, which is— Ps. LII, 1.… Euthymius Zigabenus d. after 1118PG 128:561…psalm li h a in the end a psalm of instruction by david when doeg the edomite came and reported to saul and said to him david has come to the house of achimelech as blessed… Nicephorus Blemmydes 1197–c. 1272PG 142:1471…sweetness d psalm li unto the end a psalm of instruction for david when doeg the edomite came and told saul and said to him david came into the house of ahimelech fleeing from saul david…
2Ps 52:2
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:765D…h the mouth, but with the five carnal senses. For if the heart or the mouth were sufficient, the prophet would say thus too: Confess to the Lord on the harp (Ps. 52:2), of one or two chor-… Mark the Deacon fl. c. 420PG 65:1241C…tongue. Therefore God will destroy you forever, He will pluck you out, and make you emigrate from your tabernacle, and your word from the land of the living" (Ps. lii, 2-7); and those things which follow in the… Andrew of Crete c. 660–740PG 97:1255B…52). "God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace" (Jac. IV, 6). This brought down Pharaoh: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Psal. LII, 2). This casts down Nebuchadnezzar: "Thou… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1345…housemates eusebius an evil tongue is a man's ruin and again david thy tongue deviseth mischiefs like a sharp rasor ps li and again what shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto…
5Ps 52:5
Diodore of Tarsus d. c. 394PG 33:1593…er that they might be punished for a few sins and not many. But these being in such a state, he says, I have my expectation and hope in You, O Lord. Psal. LII, vers. 5. Since in the parable of the tares also, the sower of these… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:73D…ll visit? (Eccli. 2:16-17); others because of mindless ostentation, of whom the Psalmist predicted: For God has scattered the bones of those who please men (Ps. 52:5); others through arrogance and pride, w… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:591…thee out and remove thee from thy tabernacle and thy root out of the land of the living diapsalma the just shall see and fear and shall laugh at him and say behold the man that… Otto Fridolin Fritzsche 1812-1896PG 66:29A…e is a great abundance of these, it pleases me for now to draw the reader's attention only to those which I consider worthy of note above others: p. 25, 27 (on Ps. LII, 5, 7), 35 (I, 1), 54, 61 (LIV, 3, 14). Th…
6Ps 52:6
Pope Telesphorus r. c. 127-137 (martyred)PG 5:1085…and root you out of the land of the living the righteous shall see and fear and shall laugh at him behold the man who did not set god as his strength but trusted in the… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:447…out of the land of the living forever so that the righteous shall see and fear and shall laugh at him and say behold the man who did not set god as his strength but trusted… Macarius of Egypt c. 300–391PG 34:503B…or the glory and praise of men, which before God are like injustice, theft, and other sins. For God says: "He has scattered the bones of those who please men" (Ps. LII, 6); so that through things that seem good… Macarius of Egypt c. 300–391PG 34:845…the Lord considers these hidden sins of the soul to be on a par with the outward ones. For the Lord says: "He has scattered the bones of those who please men" (Ps. LII, 6), and, "The Lord will abhor the man of… Macarius of Egypt c. 300–391PG 34:885…glory. This is judged by God as equal to theft, sloth, and other great sins. For God, it is said, "hath scattered the bones of those who please men" (Ps. LII, 6). So the enemy—that deceiver, various and crooked—continual… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:591…thy root out of the land of the living diapsalma the just shall see and fear and shall laugh at him and say behold the man that made not god his helper but trusted in the… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:91B…mon or a man is restraining him; and there is much tumult, much perturbation. Such things as these they fear. They will fear, he says, where there is fear (Ps. 52. 6): but things which are justly feared, t… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:367B…” he says, “as men-pleasers.” Which will result in you incurring loss. For hear the Prophet saying: “The Lord has scattered the bones of those who please men” (Ps. 52.6). See, therefore, how He spares them an… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 70:1297A…His faculties and energies, as when it is said: "God hath scattered the bones of those who please men" (Ps. LII, 6). For God does not dissipate the bones… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1257…the destruction of these men for he says a ver the righteous shall see and fear and shall laugh at him and shall say over whom over the unjust man who not only wars against the… Theophylact of Ohrid c. 1055 – after 1107PG 126:797A…of those who please men" (Ps. LII, 6). Furthermore, it does not escape your… Anastasius of SinaiPG 89:437…a of david the righteous shall see and fear and shall laugh at him and shall say behold the man who did not make god his helper but trusted…
7Ps 52:7
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1429…from the land of the living he had been planted there behold the man that made not god his helper but trusted in the abundance of his riches etc ps li perhaps he was growing rich… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:447…him and say behold the man who did not set god as his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and grew strong in his calamity c these things are spoken as if concerning… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 28:903…say behold the man who did not set god as his helper but trusted in the abundance of his vanity knowing these things then let us fear and with all custody guard our own heart c… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:591…shall see and fear and shall laugh at him and say behold the man that made not god his helper but trusted in the multitude of his riches and prevailed in his vanity the calumniator destroys… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:593…at him saying behold the man who did not set god as his strength but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself in his calamity these things are said as against doeg who… Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:915…its hope in god is of this nature according to that behold the man that made not god his helper but trusted in the abundance of his riches ps li he shall meditate upon deuteronomy day… Antiochus of St. Sabas fl. c. 614-620PG 89:1457…said behold the man who did not set god as his helper but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself in his vanity and job says if a sinner should gather silver like… Theophanes Kerameus fl. 12th c.PG 132:297…and have hungered having no bread of life and because he hoped in the abundance of his riches and the savior speaking about a certain foolish man the land he says of a certain rich man…
8Ps 52:8
Clement of Rome d. c. 100PG 1:1357…however lacking in reason it may be blush with shame even though i trust in the mercy of god that even my mind from those things which it has conceived through your doctrine can no longer… Pope Telesphorus r. c. 127-137 (martyred)PG 5:1085…riches and was comforted in his malice but i as a flourishing olive tree in the house of god have hoped in the mercy of god forever and ever i will praise you forever because you… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:567…thinking of this when he said but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god by which he manifestly shows that the olive tree is called a just and holy man b… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1429…which he had been placed by saul but i as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god etc ps li… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:1431…bearing are fine olive trees but i am like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god and those who are beginning and are being led in among them are as the new plants… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:1641…olives each of which can say but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god perhaps also on this mount of olives are the roots of the good olive tree but branches… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:1737…a tree bearing fruit might say but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god and those who are not yet made like an olive tree bearing fruit in the house of… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 14:1193…that it might even say of them but i like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god for if the branches that were broken off were broken off because of unbelief and you stand… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:457…of such sort as he says i am like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god and this mount of olives is said to be opposite jerusalem since in place of the old… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:449…vain and foolish boastfulness h verse but i like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god have hoped in the mercy of god forever and unto the age of ages h we have… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:451…person of the confessor there is subjoined but i as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god have hoped in his mercy for ever c but the present c passage is not a psalm… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:453…to say that david himself prophesied but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god i have hoped in the mercy of god d knowing well that he would not attain to… Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1277…so also an olive tree i he says am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god for his doctrine according to a different c relationship is both wine and oil and bread the… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:245…his house inasmuch as he says but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god wherefore the psalm is also inscribed as to the understanding and for the end for there is… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:247…naming them by the virtue that prevailed in them i have trusted in the mercy of god for ever and ever the divine scriptures call the lord the mercy of god because it is through him… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:857…and grew strong in his vanity but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god i have hoped in the mercy of god for ever and for ever and ever i will… Diodore of Tarsus d. c. 394PG 33:1589…in malice he speaks concerning his own disposition like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god bringing forth fruit which is a release from labors a remedy for diseases a nourishment and increase… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:563…of disobedience c but he who is rooted like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god employs against the tyrant those words which we have heard in the psalm saying why do you… Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:565…the psalm below for he who has taken root like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god and having established in himself that firm and unmoved foundation of his faith and having extended the… Didymus the Blind c. 313–398PG 39:1423…he pays his vows day by day and sings to the name of god for ever and ever for singing to the name of the one being hymned is fitting even for those who have entered… Epiphanius of Salamis c. 340–404PG 89:889…spirit as those who now say but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god whence those who are illuminated are flourishing in the house of god and in the courts of… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1081…philosophy such as was david saying but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god a fruitful olive tree not abounding in leaves but teeming with the fruits of piety for there… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:49…the faith of the teacher and the humanity of the emperor we trust in the mercy of god for when the emperor is besought and the priest is beseeching he himself will stand in the midst… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:589…of good things in which he says but i as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god have hoped in the mercy of god for ever and ever v and the understanding of the… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:593…for his vain and foolish arrogance i however like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god have hoped in the mercy of god forever and unto the age of ages i will confess… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:649…too an olive tree for i am he says like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god ps li for his teaching according to a different relation is both wine and oil and bread… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 59:571…like a green plant inclined toward almsgiving to be as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god ps li for this reason he simultaneously excises the sprouting simulations of almsgiving saying what take heed… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:175…need of much oil and we must be as a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god let us consider therefore how many burdens of sins each one of us has and let us… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:223…hear the prophet saying but i he says am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god ps let us become such as the olive tree let us be adorned on every side with… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:279…hoped in the multitude of his riches but i as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god have hoped in the mercy of god for ever and for ever and ever… Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 77:1039…the gospel shall be according to that prophetic word like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god glorifying god the father almighty and his only begotten son who was born of mary and the… Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1207…into the memory of his own denial just as a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god that is always standing firm in the faith although he endured for a short time the heat… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1257…the gain of present prosperity ver but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god i have hoped in the mercy of god for ever and for ever and ever for the… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1895…an olive tree i indeed he said am like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god and here too he likened the children of one who fears the lord to olive shoots since… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1833…great david is witness crying out but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god i have hoped in the mercy of god forever he calls the unfruitful the fields subject to… Cosmas Indicopleustes fl. c. 535–550PG 88:1641…as we are weak let us be eager to be humbled and i trust in the mercy of god that even this little offering made with humility will find us a place along with those saints… Antiochus of St. Sabas fl. c. 614-620PG 89:1703…sweetness of the lord and that but i am as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god and that o lord i have loved the beauty of thy house and the place of the… Andrew of Crete c. 660–740PG 97:869…which god is pleased to dwell olive but i as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god ark arise o lord into thy resting place thou and the ark which thou hast sanctified throne… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1465…social nature of his character become o man like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god never divesting yourself of hope but always holding the salvation through faith blooming around you thus you… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:675…divine discourses and you shall grow fat upon them like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god like a tree planted by the streams of the spirit like the tree of life which gave… John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:775…the counterparts of the vices he was known as an b evergreen olive tree in the house of god the church and he offered to god a beautiful fruit the multitude of those who were saved… Euthymius Zigabenus d. after 1118PG 128:565…him at all in his danger i however am as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god he prophesies even now concerning himself that while they indeed lay snares for me so frantically and… Theophanes Kerameus fl. 12th c.PG 132:617…in the odor of sweetness let us be planted as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god do you see how the plant of the olive is always flourishing never casting off its covering… Nicephorus Blemmydes 1197–c. 1272PG 142:1471…he calls the acquisition of wickedness but i am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of god he prophesies that he will be kept uncorrupted under the shelter of god like an olive tree… OrigenesPG 16:847…h the hebraic text h and i am like a green olive tree in the house of god jerome and i am like a flourishing olive tree in the house… OrigenesPG 16:849…symmacus a but i am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of god that thy name is good before thy saints b symmacus but i as a flourishing olive tree… Basilius Caesariensis MagnusPG 29:109…for the true husbandman do you however be h as a fruitful olive tree in the house of god h never being stripped of hope but always having within yourself salvation through faith blossoming for thus… Cyril of JerusalemPG 33:373…for all to say that i however am like a fruit bearing olive tree in the house of god i have hoped in the mercy of god forever it is not a sensible olive but an…
9Ps 52:9
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:451…good things to the administrator of them saying i will confess to thee for ever because thou hast done it for i did not he says make myself as a fruit bearing olive tree but thou… Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:857…god for ever and for ever and ever i will confess to thee for ever because thou hast done it and i will wait for thy name for it is good in the sight of thy… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:593…thee forever because thou hast made it and i will wait upon thy name for it is good before thy saints we have learned through what has been said what kind of end the one c… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1257…ver i will confess to thee for ever for thou hast done and i will wait on thy name for it is good in the sight of thy saints now the phrase i will confess to… Nicephorus Blemmydes 1197–c. 1272PG 142:1471…because thou hast done it thou hast done it namely dealt judgment and i will wait on thy name for it is good before thy saints for this is profitable before those who have been consecrated…
10Ps 52:10
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:223B…en if they have committed innumerable sins, much more does God. Hear the prophet saying, "But I," he says, "am like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God" (Ps. 52:10). Let us become such as the olive tree;…
125Ps 52:125
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:2003…on Psalm XLIV, 1187 on Psalm XLV, 1199 on Psalm XLVI, 1201 on Psalm XLVII, 1215 on Psalm XLVIII, 1217 on Psalm XLIX, 1227 on Psalm L, 1237 on Psalm LI, 1253 on Psalm LII, 1259 on Psalm LIII, 1263 on Psalm LIV, 1267…
145Ps 52:145
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1707…Psalm XLIV 1427 On Psalm XLV 1431 On Psalm XLVI 1435 On Psalm XLVII 1438 On Psalm XLVIII 1442 On Psalm XLIX 1447 On Psalm L 1451 On Psalm LI 1458 On Psalm LII 1459 On Psalm LIII 1462 On Psalm LIV 1463 On Psalm LV 1470 On P…