Psalm 140:3 (WEB)
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
Fathers and councils · 6
Augustine of Hippo
““Their throat is an open sepulchre.”” — editor's note: [Here the author quotes the African Psalter, no doubt, from which the three verses have passed into the Vulgate. They are in the Septuagint, from which St.…
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John Chrysostom
““For adder’s poison,” it is said, “is under their lips,and their throat is an open sepulchre.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxl. 3 and v. 9.
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Leo the Great
““For they have sharpened their tongues like serpents: adder’s poison is under their lips,” as the prophet has cried out about them.” — editor's note: Ps. cxl. 3.
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Tertullian
“Anger has been prohibited, our spirits retained, the petulance of the hand checked, the poison of the tongue extracted.” — editor's note: Ps. cxl. 3; Rom. iii. 13; James iii. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…most fluently, whether explicitly, or by covert allusion; who rolls beneath his tongue mischief and iniquity, or to speak more accurately, the poison of asps.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 7; cxl. 3.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.