Psalms, cited
19 works in the library quote Psalms — 99 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
94 authority 2 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended
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99 citations · from 19 worksThe harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 30 citations · 65 passages
book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 2 9 passages anchored here · book 3 3 passages anchored here · book 4 11 passages anchored here · book 5 7 passages anchored here · book 6 19 passages anchored here · book 7 13 passages anchored hereThe psalm is explicitly attributed to 'blessed David' and quoted at length.
" "Open, then," says the Scripture, "the gates of righteousness, that, entering through them, I may confess to the Lord.
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended 20 citations · 35 passages
book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 3 7 passages anchored here · book 4 13 passages anchored here · book 5 8 passages anchored hereThe psalm is explicitly introduced as having 'foresung' the events described, marking it as a cited authority.
the kings of the earth stood by and the magistrates came together as one against the Lord and against His Christ.
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 11 citations · 14 passages
letter 8 3 passages anchored here · letter 22 · letter 42 · letter 150 · letter 189 · letter 199 · letter 207 · letter 223 2 passages anchored hereand 3 more chapters
David quoted repeatedly as authoritative source of the cited lines.
and of nature in the universal sense, as when David says, "Man, his days are as grass.
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Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 10 citations · 27 passages
chapter 9 · chapter 11 2 passages anchored here · chapter 15 2 passages anchored here · chapter 17 · chapter 18 2 passages anchored here · chapter 20 3 passages anchored here · chapter 22 · chapter 23and 10 more chapters
David is explicitly named as "the prophet David" before his words are quoted.
From all these, then, and from many other examples beyond number, we learn the power of tears and of repentance;
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Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 4 citations · 19 passages
ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 10 9 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here · ch. 18 2 passages anchored here · ch. 19 3 passages anchored here · ch. 25The verse is attributed to David, quoted as a premise and located by chapter and verse.
And Dāwud said, “When then shall I come and look upon Your face” (2) [7] — and the Creator, the Exalted, is not a body, so likewise the one who looks upon Him (3), and that is the soul.
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Adversus Judaeos Tertullian 3 citations · 7 passages
The Psalms of David are explicitly named and quoted in two paragraphs as prophetic authority.
whom all the nations have obeyed — that is, in whom all the nations have believed — whose preachers, the apostles, are shown in the psalms of David:
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Adversus Praxean Tertullian 3 citations · 8 passages
Psalm texts are quoted and relied on as scriptural authority for the argument.
"By his Word the heavens were established, and by his Spirit all their powers.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
Explicitly cited twice, once for a specific verse on punishment and once for the second Psalm's application to kingship.
To clear up this point, we may refer to the second Psalm, which although it applies literally to David, yet in its more full and perfect sense relates to Christ, which may be seen by consulting other parts of scripture.
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Adversus Hermogenem Tertullian 2 citations · 4 passages
Psalm wording is quoted to support arguments about divine sonship and grace.
and, God stood in the assembly of gods — but by his grace, not by our own property, because he alone it is who makes gods.
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De Anima Tertullian 2 citations
A Psalm of David is cited as scriptural authority for the heart being the object of divine address and renewal.
if David too says, ‘Create in me a clean heart, O God,’ and Paul says that one believes with the heart unto righteousness, and John says that each one is reproved by his own heart;
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De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 2 citations · 4 passages
Repeatedly and explicitly quoted by name as prophetic/psalmic authority.
"The kings of the earth stood up" — Herod — "and the rulers were gathered together into one" — Annas and Caiaphas — "against the Lord and against His Christ.
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De Pudicitia Tertullian 2 citations
Directly quoted psalm verses.
" You have at once in the Psalms, "Blessed is the man who has not gone away in the counsel of the impious, nor stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of pestilence.
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Scorpiace Tertullian 2 citations · 4 passages
Attributed 'as through David' for the idols quotation and 'as David sings' for the blessedness quotation.
If you have ever read in David, "Lift up, O princes, your gates, and be lifted up, you eternal gates, and the King of glory shall enter in";
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De legendis gentilium libris Basil of Caesarea 1 citation
David is named directly as author of the sacred songs invoked as authoritative moral music.
But we must pursue the other kind, the better, the one that leads to the better—the very kind that David, the poet of the sacred songs, used, when, as they say, he restored the king from his madness.
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
The psalmist David is explicitly named and quoted twice as scriptural authority exhorting piety and trust in God.
"Sons of men, how long will you be heavy of heart?
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De Carne Christi Tertullian 1 citation
The psalms of David are explicitly named and quoted as prophetic authority for Christ's birth.
For us too the psalms shall be patrons to this effect — not, indeed, those of the apostate and heretic and Platonist Valentinus, but of the most holy and most received prophet David.
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De Corona Tertullian 1 citation
David is explicitly quoted as a scriptural source condemning idols, foundational to the argument against crowns as idol-adjacent.
"The idols of the nations," says David, "are silver and gold.
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De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 citation
Directly quotes psalmic language ('the everlasting gates were lifted up... the King of glory') applied typologically to Christ.
"The everlasting gates were lifted up, that the King of glory might enter, the Lord of hosts"—who purchased man from the earth, nay, from the lower regions, into the heavens.
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De idolatria Tertullian 1 citation
David's words are directly quoted as further scriptural support against idol-fabrication.
" Where likewise David condemns the makers too:
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