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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 37:16

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 37:16 (WEB)

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

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John Cassian

  • “…can detract, and which the pressure of no daily wants can lessen (for “a small thing that the righteous hath is better than great riches of the ungodly”) rather than to pursue those larger profits which even if they are procured by the most valuable conversion of many, are yet absorbed by the claims of secular…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvi. (xxxvii.) 16.

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