Where the Fathers quote Psalms 87
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John ChrysostomPG 55:744expounds v.2“Κυριε ο Θεος της σωτηριας μου ημερας εκεκραξα και εν νυκτι εναντιον σου·”On «O Lord, God of my salvation, etc.»
2Ps 87:2
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1045…the pious government the word has called the gates of zion saying the lord loveth the gates of zion more than all the tabernacles of jacob by the tabernacles of jacob the jewish traditions and the…
Hadrian the Monk fl. c. 425-450PG 98:1275…have loved jacob but esau i have hated and the lord loves the gates of zion more than all the tents of jacob and i have been jealous for jerusalem and zion with a great jealousy…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:325…truth he concurs with the divine david who says the lord loves the gates of zion more than all the tabernacles of jacob let us love these gates and let us continually wait at them so…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1451C…easonable to ask for mystical gifts from the Lord, until one's very last breath. "I have cried out by day," he says, "and by night before you, O Lord my God" (Ps. lxxxvii, 2). Do you see how the divine David b…
3Ps 87:3
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 20:849…foundation of the truth concerning which another divine oracle also prophesies thus glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god into which when the most good and supreme god has gathered us by the…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:571…of the commonwealth of the pious concerning which it is said elsewhere glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god and the streams of the river gladden the city of god because the prophet…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:815…and evangelical manner of life established in it wherefore it is said glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god and again the streams of the river make glad the city of god since…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1039…loveth the gates of sion more than all the tabernacles of jacob glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god i will make mention of rahab and babylon to them that know me instead…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1043…of judea which is now inhabited by foreign nations and the passage glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god and again elsewhere the streams of the river c make glad the city of…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1249…loves the gates of sion more than all the tents of jacob glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god since therefore the prosperity of wickedness is in truth a plague upon the virtues…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 24:215…so that it is rightly said concerning it glorious things have been spoken of thee o city of god and the onrushes of the river make glad the city of god as the light of the…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 24:231…god in all the earth so that it is said of her glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god five cities in the church would be the different modes of life five moreover…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 24:315…it is that glorious city of god of which it is said glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god there is also in it fire and an oven to burn and consume the…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:325…by the city he signifies the church about which it is written glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god his name shall remain before the sun he shows that he who was not…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:377…god than the worship according to the law glorious things have been spoken of thee o city of god the city is the church what are the glorious things spoken of her other than the fact…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:425…calls the soul the city of the lord according to that saying glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god h a prayer for the poor when he is fainting and poureth out his…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:1017…loveth the gates of sion more than all the tabernacles of jacob glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god i will be mindful of rahab and of babylon that knoweth b me diapsalma…
Epiphanius of Salamis c. 340–404PG 42:777…to relate the marvelous things concerning this holy city of god for glorious things are spoken of thee as the prophet says h glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god h things of…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 50:793…mary go to the living gate concerning which the prophet spoke 'glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god' ps go to my rational paradise go to the eastern gate go to the dwelling…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:657…city of god of which also the blessed david made mention saying glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god for it is rich adorned with gifts from above and from heaven and holds…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 70:1015…they heard the sacred ministers chanting in the divine temple concerning jerusalem glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god c the lord himself also makes mention of this saying that no one ought…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 70:1339…city of god and the inspired david teaches this when addressing her glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god and the lord of all says somewhere through the lyre of the psalmist here…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:643…house and his city for the divine david sings somewhere and says glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god d wherefore as a city so also a house…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:717…city the intelligible sion of which the divine psalmist made mention saying glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god ps lxxxvi for christ inhabits the church and has made it his own city…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 72:111…dwell here for i have chosen her the blessed david also sings glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god the prophet isaiah also signaled this to us saying it shall be in the…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 72:211…of the church of whom the divine david also makes mention saying glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god ps lxxxvi having sought them they were enriched by an innumerable multitude and crowd…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 74:765…that he dwelt there alone because it had been said of david glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god a therefore god refutes their petty notions saying what house will you build for…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 76:611…it alone because it had been said by the mouth of david glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god therefore since they thought meanly of god he reproves them with these words what…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1563…by the god of all and preferred before the jewish tabernacles vers glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god c wonderful and unexpected are the things which have been foretold concerning you and…
Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:2273…to despise his city and especially the church concerning which we read glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god c and the streams of the river make glad the city of god for…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:699…glorious things have been spoken as the divine david utters regarding her glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god for what other city of the invisible and uncircumscribed god who holds all things…
George of Nicomedia fl. c. 860-880 (9th century)PG 100:1397…infallible truth of the events future in the time long past for glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god b glorious beyond all glory that is recounted glorious to the highest powers priced…
Euthymius Zigabenus d. after 1118PG 128:885…the ark rested as is said before in the th psalm b glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god having heard from the holy spirit that god was to be seen in jerusalem…
John VI Kantakouzenos c. 1292–1383PG 154:1167…prepared them by the life giving power of his own blood how glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god how beloved are thy tabernacles o lord of hosts my soul longeth and fainteth…
Gregory ThaumaturgusPG 10:1173…mary go to the ensouled city of which the prophet said 'glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god' ps lxxxvi go to my rational paradise go to the gate of the east go…
Germanus I of ConstantinoplePG 98:371…clothes of our lord jesus christ h combefis manipulus rerum constantinop p glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god ps lxxxvi…
AnonymousPG 106:1205…were a city of his own which one is that the church glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god this city is an imitation of the heavenly city jerusalem neither fearing god nor…
4Ps 87:4
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1039…of jacob glorious things are spoken of thee o city of god i will make mention of rahab and babylon to them that know me instead of for the sons of kore aquila and symmachus have…
Nilus of Sinai d. c. 430PG 79:289…o lord when you come into your kingdom the good lord replies i will make mention of rahab and babylon to those who know me b indeed those whom christ remembers he also saves entirely for…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1563…do not at all befit the earthly sion what follows testifies vers i will make mention of rahab and babylon to them that know me and behold those of other nations and tyre and the people…
Euthymius Zigabenus d. after 1118PG 128:885…account of his sufferings and his burial therein i will be mindful of rahab and babylon to them that know me this speech is uttered in the person of the savior and he prophesies that the…
5Ps 87:5
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 14:81B…ire into those things to which the Savior also by becoming them, says, through the prophet David: "And I was made as a man without help, free among the dead." (Ps. LXXXVII, 5, 6.) Just as having something more…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 23:1043…next shall it not be said to sion 'a man and a man was born in her and he himself founded her ' for which aquila has translated and to sion it shall be b said…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 26:1027…a and david says mother sion shall say 'a man and a man was born in her and the most high himself founded her ' for this man who was born in her he himself is…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 26:1143…brother does not redeem a man shall redeem and elsewhere and a man was born in her and the most high himself founded her how then does christ not save the world by becoming man since…
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 27:15…in the eighty sixth mount sion shall say a man and a man was born in her and the most high himself has established her for this is equivalent to saying and the word was god…
Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 46:209…holy and blameless david mother sion shall say a man and a man was born in her and the highest himself hath founded her h iv concerning the miracles which the lord was to perform after…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:435…fury of the winds mother sion will say a man and a man was born in her and he himself has founded her ps lxxxvi a since i am a man and a man was born…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:743…namely as to how he teaches he adds these things and a man was born in her and the highest himself hath founded her he calls christ both man and the highest man because of the…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 77:1397…midst of it and it shall not be shaken and again a man was born in her and the most high himself hath founded her but the adversaries of the truth being carnal and having not…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1459…see what david accurately sang mother sion shall say a man and man was born in her and the most high himself founded her for the mother is a virgin and after the birth she remained…
George Kedrenos fl. 11th c.PG 121:819…that which was said mother sion shall a man say and a man was born in her and the most high himself founded her in this same region he underwent a saving passion and wrought salvation…
Nicetas Choniates c. 1155–1217PG 139:1201…david elsewhere mother sion shall say a man and a man is born in her and the highest himself hath founded her h of the flight of christ h again isaiah concerning the flight of christ…
OrigenesPG 16:1053…these were born there mother sion will say a man and a man was born in her and the most high himself established her the lord shall recount in the register of peoples and of these…
Anastasius of SinaiPG 89:1229…founded sion david said a man shall say mother sion and a man was born in her and the most high himself founded her that he was to be baptized in the jordan and be witnessed…
6Ps 87:6
Dionysius the Areopagite fl. c. 500PG 4:131C…LIII, v. 9). Therefore, it was impossible for him to be held by death, as Peter says; but he was made "free among the dead," according to the opinion of David (Ps. LXXXVII, 6).…
Joannes ChrysostomusPG 51:33C…rus erat in cruce: Deus, Deus meus, quare me dereliquisti? (Ps. 21. 2). Tum sepulchrum rursus: Posuerunt me in lacu infimo, in tenebris et in umbra mortis (Ps. 87. 6). Et resurrectionem: Non enim derelinq…
7Ps 87:7
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:819C…oretold. Then, that he was to be given over to burial, he declared in these words: They laid me in the lower pit, in dark places and in the shadow of death (Ps. 87:7). But when he was about to rise again,…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:583C…the Jews: "He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him, let him save him, because he wants him" (Ps. XXI, 8). Tell of his burial: "They laid me in a lower pit" (Ps. LXXXVII, 7). Tell of his resurrection: "Because yo…
Laonicus Chalcocondyles fl. 1439–1462PG 159:1283A…uls of sinners are in Hades, beneath all the earth and sea, as the Psalm says: 'They have placed me in the lower pit, in darkness and in the shadow of death.' [Ps. LXXXVII, 7] And as it is written in Job: 'Into a d…
11Ps 87:11
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:59A…t bring about salvation. For who shall heal him who is punished by God? As the prophet says: "Shall the physicians raise him up, and shall they confess thee?" (Ps. LXXXVII, 11). Thus all the adversaries of the peace…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:27A…o see the life of men." Ps. vi, 5. — "There is no one in death who remembers you," etc. Ps. xxix, 9. — "What profit is there in my blood, when I descend?" etc. Ps. lxxxvii, 11. — "Will anyone tell of your mercy in t…
19Ps 87:19
Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 30:1109A…is not at all changed by the words when we have moved far away from him, “as often as we have distanced ourselves from him, we approach destruction;” but in Psalm LXXXVII, 19, they who distance themselves from the…
154Ps 87:154
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:1707…43 On Psalm LXXX 1545 On Psalm LXXXI 1543 On Psalm LXXXII 1546 On Psalm LXXXIII 1546 On Psalm LXXXIV 1546 On Psalm LXXXV 1546 On Psalm LXXXVI 1546 On Psalm LXXXVII 1547 On Psalm LXXXVIII 1547 On Psalm LXXXIX 1550 On Psalm XC 15…
156Ps 87:156
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:2003…1509 on Psalm LXXX, 1519 on Psalm LXXXI, 1527 on Psalm LXXXII, 1531 on Psalm LXXXIII, 1537 on Psalm LXXXIV, 1545 on Psalm LXXXV, 1553 on Psalm LXXXVI, 1561 on Psalm LXXXVII, 1567 on Psalm LXXXVIII, 1573 on Psalm LXXXI…
744Ps 87:744
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:789…onk is like a sparrow. 735-738 EXPOSITION on Psalm LXXXIV. 738-740 EXPOSITION on Psalm LXXXV. 740-742 EXPOSITION on Psalm LXXXVI. 742-744 EXPOSITION on Psalm LXXXVII. 744-747 EXPOSITION on Psalm LXXXVIII. 747-755…