Psalm 119:19 (WEB)
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“…low estate made like to the body of His glory,” and this of the blessed David: “For I am a sojourner upon the earth,” and “a stranger as all my fathers were;” so that we may in accordance with the Lord’s word be made like those of whom the Lord speaks to His Father in the gospel as follows: “They are not of the…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 19; Ps. xxxviii. (xxxix.) 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“What he addeth, “I am a lodger upon earth” (ver. 19): or, as some copies read, “I am a sojourner upon earth, O hide not Thy commandments from me,” hath the same meaning.…” — the author cites it
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