Psalm 37:27

““Depart from evil, and do good” (ver. 27).” — the author cites it

“Let us “decline from evil, and do good.” ( Ps. xxxvii. 27.)” — the author cites it

“…up marriages for himself even through sanguinary means, of some Solomon rich in wives as well as in other riches—you are bidden to “follow the better things;” and you have withal Joseph but once wedded, and on this score I venture to say better than his father; you have Moses, the intimate eye-witness of God; you…” — editor's note: See Ps. xxxvii. 27 (in LXX. xxxvi. 27); 1 Pet. iii. 11; 3 John 11.

“For he who has received this charge, not only needs to be free from evil, for evil is, in the eyes of most of those under his care, most disgraceful, but also to be eminent in good, according to the command, “Depart from evil and do good.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvii. 27.

“These I imagine to be meant by those whom men have made Eunuchs, when the word of teaching distinguishing the better from the worse and rejecting the one and commanding the other (like the verse, Depart from evil and do good), works spiritual chastity.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxvii. 27.