Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 69:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 216, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3057 (In-Text, Margin)

... fearful,” he replied; “where is that old hardihood of yours which made you ‘scour the world with copious salt,’ as Horace says of Lucilius?” “It is this,” I rejoined, “that makes me shy and forbids me to open my lips. For through accusing crime I have been myself made out a criminal. Men have disputed and denied my assertions until, as the proverb goes, I hardly know whether I have ears or feeling left. The very walls have resounded with curses levelled at me, and ‘I was the song of drunkards.’[Psalms 69:12] Under the compulsion of an unhappy experience I have learned to be silent, thinking it better to set a watch before my mouth and to keep the door of my lips than to incline my heart to any evil thing, or, while censuring the faults of others, myself ...