Psalm 19:13 (WEB)
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“So, also, the blessed David says: “Who can understand his errors?” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“Do not let your mind become a prey to excitement, for if this effects a lodgment in your breast it will have dominion over you and will lead you into the great transgression.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 13.
Read the whole comment“The meaning is, that if the serpent finds his way into your thoughts you must “keep your heart with all diligence” and sing with David, “cleanse thou me from secret faults: keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins,” and come not to “the great transgression” which is sin in act.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 12–14.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12Conference XX
“…Lord, and asks for purification and pardon, and says: “Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me; and from those of others spare Thy servant;” and the Apostle: “For the good which I would I do not, and the evil which I would not, that I do.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. (xix.) 12–13.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17Conference XXIII
“…that he is pure from sin?” and again: “There is not a righteous man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not;” and this also: “Who knoweth his faults?”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. (cxliii.) 2; Prov. xx. 9; Eccl. vii. 21; Ps. xviii. (xix.) 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Cleanse me from my secret sins, O Lord, and keep Thy servant from those of other men.” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 12, 13. “Be it that sin may never see the light, that it may be like a child born and buried in the womb; yet as that child is a man, a true man,…
Read the whole comment““And from the” faults “of others preserve Thy servant” (ver. 13).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Hence is that which is elsewhere spoken, “From my secret sins cleanse Thou me; and from others’ sins also keep Thy servant.”” — editor's note: Ps. xix. 12, 13.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Confessions I.5.
Cited together in Confessions I.5.
Cited together in Confessions I.5.
Cited together in Confessions I.5.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.17.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.12.
Cited together in Confessions I.5.
Cited together in Confessions I.5.
