“The written words say that God has wings.… But we will not on that account say that God's spiritual and indestructible essence is winged.… What, then, are we to understand by the wings? The help, security, shelter, defense and unconquerable aid that God gives us.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — AGAINST THE ANOMOEANS 8:4
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8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
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6I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
— Psalms 17:8 —
9From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.