Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 10:7

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 46, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 486 (In-Text, Margin)

4. “All have gone out of the way, they have together become useless:” that is, the Jews have become as the Gentiles, who were spoken of above. “There is none that doeth good, no not up to one” (ver. 3), must be interpreted as above. “Their throat is an open sepulchre.”[Psalms 10:7] Either the voracity of the ever open palate is signified: or allegorically those who slay, and as it were devour those they have slain, into whom they instil the disorder of their own conversation. Like to which with the contrary meaning is that which was said to Peter, “Kill and eat;” that he should convert the Gentiles to his own faith and good conversation. ...