Psalm 144:11 (WEB)
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Fathers and councils · 6
Augustine of Hippo
“Let a fraternal and not an alien soul do this, nor that “of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,” but that fraternal one which, when it approves me, rejoices for me, but when it disapproves me, is sorry for me; because whether it approves or disapproves it…” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 11.
Read the whole comment“See what of them is said in another Psalm: “O Lord, deliver me,” he saith, “from the hand of alien sons, of whom the mouth hath spoken vanity, and the right hand of them is a right hand of iniquity.”…” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 11.
Read the whole comment“…who, preferring the pleasures of this world to God, styled the people blessed who have such and such things, “their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.”…” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 11.
Read the whole comment““From” this “sword deliver me” (ver. 11).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“At last He was sent who had been promised afore by the Prophets.” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 45, Sept. (cxliv. 11).
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Tertullian
“Nor would the name of publicans have been so execrable in the eyes of the Lord, unless as being a “strange” name,—a (name) of such as put up the pathways of the very sky, and earth, and sea, for sale.” — editor's note: Extraneum. Comp. such phrases as “strange children,” Ps. cxliv. 7, 11 (cxliii. 7, 11, in LXX.), and Hos. v. 7; “strange gods,” etc.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Confessions X.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.4.