Psalm 5:2
Douay-Rheims
Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.
Asterius of Cappadocia
If one grants that indeed each animal recognizes the cry of its own offspring in the largest and most crowded flocks, that though a thousand calves may cry, the mother knows the cry of her own young, that though a thousand lambs may bleat, the female runs to the voice of her own and it does not fall, how much more among a thousand sinners crying out does God know the cry of the just and recognize him as the pure voice of his own child?
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A.D. 341 · on Ps 5:2 (HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 10:5)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.