Psalm 26:4 (WEB)
I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Fathers and councils · 6
Augustine of Hippo
““I have not sat with the council of vanity” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…sit with us, and said that they had been so advised by the Scripture of God, seeing forsooth that it is written, “I have not sat in the council of vanity;” I said, “If ye will not sit with us, because it is written, ‘I have not sat in the council of vanity;’ why have ye entered this place with us, since it is…” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. 4, Sept.
Read the whole comment““That I may behold,” saith he, “the beauty of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“And not even now, be well assured, should we have written this, if we had not seen that the Church was being torn asunder and divided, among their other tricks, by their present synagogue of vanity.” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. 4 LXX.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Do not sit in the council of vanity; for it is written, “I have not sat in the council of vanity.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. [xxv.] 4.
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Tertullian
“…of vanity; and with them who act iniquitously will I not enter”—this (has to do with “the church” of such as act ill—“and with the impious will I not sit;” and, “I will wash with the innocent mine hands, and Thine altar will I surround, Lord”—as being “a host in himself”—inasmuch as indeed “With an holy (man),…” — editor's note: Ps. xxvi. 4, 5 (in LXX. xxv. 4, 5).
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 26.
Cited together in Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 26.