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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 119:8

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Psalm 119:8 (WEB)

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

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John Cassian

  • “…himself and to human nature in its course towards perfection) but he rather entreated that it might be in measure and degree, saying “Forsake me not utterly” as if to say in other words: I know that thou dost forsake thy saints to their advantage, in order to prove them, for in no other way could they be tempted by…” — editor's note: Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 8.

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  • “…morning;” and “I prevented the dawning of the day and cried;” and again, “Mine eyes to Thee have prevented the morning, that I might meditate on Thy words.”” — editor's note: Pss. lxii. (lxiii.) 2, 7; cxviii. (cxix.) 147, 8. In both East and West Ps. lxii. (lxiii.) has from very early times been used as a morning hymn. See the…

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