Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 70:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 313, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXX (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3046 (In-Text, Margin)

... breaketh not forth. For it hath been said concerning these times of the Church, “The sinner shall see, and shall be angry.” And shall do what? That which he did at first? Drag, bind, smite? He doeth not this. What then? “With his teeth he shall gnash, and shall pine away.” And with these men the Martyr is, as it were, angry, and yet for these men the Martyr prayeth. For in like manner as he hath wished well to those men concerning whom he hath said, “Let them be confounded and fear that seek my soul:”[Psalms 70:2] so also now, “Let them be turned backward, and blush, that think evil things to me.” Wherefore? In order that they may not go before, but follow. For he that censureth the Christian religion, and on his own system willeth to live, willeth as it were ...