Psalm 141:5 (WEB)
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Fathers and councils · 5
Cyprian of Carthage
“But we ought to know and remember that it is written, “Let not the oil of a sinner anoint my head,” which the Holy Spirit before forewarned in the Psalms, lest any one going out of the way and wandering from the path of truth should be anointed by heretics and adversaries of Christ.” — editor's note: Ps. cxli. 5 (LXX.).
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Augustine of Hippo
“If thou shalt neither have said to any man, as if it were by his own merit, Well, well: nor shalt have heard the same with joy, so that thy head be not made fat with the oil of a sinner.” — editor's note: Ps. cxli. 5.
Read the whole comment““The righteous One shall amend me in mercy, and convict me” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“How much better had it been for you not to have acquiesced in flatterers, and to have carried oil within, and for a good conscience-sake to have done all good works; then might ye say, “The righteous shall correct me in mercy, and reprove me, but the oil of the sinner shall not fatten my head.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxl. 5, Sept. (cxli. English version).
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Jerome
““Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me; but let not the oil of the sinner enrich my head.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxli. 5. LXX.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.