Psalm 16:4 (WEB)
Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“It is of their speedy conversion that the Psalmist sings, “Their infirmities were multiplied; afterwards they made haste.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 4. Sept. and Vulgate.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For of His adversaries He says, “I will not take up their names into my lips.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…Me, O Lord, for in Thee have I put my trust: and after this, their assemblies of blood will I not join, nor make mention of their names between my lips; since they have refused me, and chosen Cæsar as their king: and also the next words, I foresaw the Lord alway before Me, because He is at My right hand, that…” — editor's note: Ib. xvi. 4: “their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer.” The Psalmist abhors the bloody rites, and the very names of the false gods.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Their infirmities have been multiplied” (ver. 4): their infirmities have been multiplied not for their destruction, but that they might long for the Physician.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“The Psalmist saith, “Because of the words of Thy lips I have kept hard ways.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 4, Sept. (xvii. English version).
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John Chrysostom
“And he said not, “Go not after them,” but what is more, Do not admit them into thy mind; which he says also in another place, “I will not mention their names through my lips.” ( Ps. xvi. 4.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“It is said, “That my mouth speak not the works of men.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvi. 4, LXX.
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Tertullian
“He seals the gods themselves with this name; whereas the Law, as we have said, prohibits “the names of gods to be pronounced,” and this name to be conferred on vanity.” — editor's note: Ex. xxiii. 13; Josh. xxiii. 7; Ps. xvi. 4; Hos. ii. 17; Zech. xiii. 2.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.