Psalm 25:18 (WEB)
Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
Fathers and councils · 7
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.8Conference XX
“And come, reason with Me, saith the Lord: and though your sins were as scarlet, yet shall they be as white as snow, though they were red as crimson, they shall be as white as wool.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxiv. (xxv.) 18; Is. i. 16–18.
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Augustine of Hippo
““The meek will He guide in judgment; and the meek will He teach His way;” looking upon our humility and our distress, and forgiving all our sins.” — editor's note: Ibid. ver. 18.
Read the whole comment““See my humility and my travail” (ver. 18).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But may God, into whose cognizance the “groaning of them that are bound enters,” look upon our humility, and our labor, and forgive us all our sins.” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxv. 18
Read the whole comment“Hence it is said to Him, “Look upon my humility [affliction] and my pain, and forgive all my sins.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxv. 18.
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John Chrysostom
“And the prophet says, “for she hath received of the Lord’s hand her sins double” ( Isa. xl. 2 ); and again David, “Behold mine enemies that they are multiplied above the hairs of my head and [with] an unjust hatred have they hated me”: “and forgive Thou all my sins.” ( Ps. xxv. 19, 18.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And in the Psalms too in his chanting, he said, “Consider mine enemies, that they are multiplied, and they hate me with unjust hatred,” and “forgive all my sins.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxv. 18, 17.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 15.