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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 119:1

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 119:1 (WEB)

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD’s law.

Fathers and councils · 6

Jerome

  • “For example:“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God,” and“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxix. 1.

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  • “A stainless reputation is difficult nay almost impossible to attain; the prophet yearns for it but hardly hopes to win it: “Blessed,” he says, “are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxix. 1.

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John Cassian

Cyprian of Carthage

Augustine of Hippo

  • “From its commencement, dearly beloved, doth this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desireth not.…And therefore this is the lesson which he teacheth, who saith, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” (ver. 1).” — the author cites it

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