Psalm 1:5 (WEB)
Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Fathers and councils · 6
Jerome
“Wherefore, we sing in the first Psalm, “The impious do not rise in the judgment,” for they are already sentenced to destruction; “nor sinners in the counsel of the just.”” — editor's note: Verse 5. Sept.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But since some who have also used the Prophets believe not what is written, and allege against us that passage, The ungodly shall not rise up in judgment, and, For if man go down to the grave he shall come up no more, and, The dead shall not praise Thee, O Lord,—for of what is well written, they have made ill…” — editor's note: Ps. i. 5: The wicked shall not stand in the judgment (R.V.).
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Augustine of Hippo
““Therefore the ungodly rise not in the judgment” (ver. 5): “therefore,” namely, because “as dust they are cast forth from the face of the earth.”” — the author cites it
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Aphrahat
“And the wicked shall not arise in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 5.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment” (being already condemned, for “he that believeth not is condemned already”), “nor sinners in the counsel of the righteous,” inasmuch as they are already condemned, so as not to be united to those that have lived without stumbling.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4, 5.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Of this also in the first Psalm: “Therefore the ungodly shall not rise up in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the righteous.”” — editor's note: Ps. i. 5.
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