“What then is our duty, my brothers, for the sake of these things, but to praise and give thanks to God, the king of all? And let us first exclaim in the words of the psalms, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us over as a prey to their teeth." Let us keep the feast in that way that he has dedicated for us unto sa…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — Letter 10.11
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6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
— Psalms 124:6 —
7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.