Psalms 22:8 (NKJV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Psalms 22:8

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Augustine of Hippo

For they shook their head in derision, saying, "He trusted in the Lord let Him deliver Him: let Him save Him, since He desireth Him" (ver. 8). These were their words; but they were spoken "with the lips."

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Thomas Aquinas

"He hoped." He shows what those words were that they spoke to his confusion: because first they reproached him for the hope he had in God; hence he says, "He hoped in the Lord; let him deliver him." Mt. 27: "He trusts in God; let him deliver him if he wants him." As if to say: if he had hoped in the Lord, he would have freed him, because it was said immediately above that "in you our fathers hoped, and you delivered them." But they are deceived, because it is not understood of temporal salvation or deliverance. …

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