Psalm 38:5 (WEB)
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Catechism · 1
“Illness becomes a way to conversion; God's forgiveness initiates the healing.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Pss 32:5; 38:5; 39:9, 12; 107:20; cf. Mk 2:5-12.
Fathers and councils · 9
Jerome
“David says,“My loins are filled with illusions”; and“My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness”; and“Enter not into judgment with Thy servant”; and“In Thy sight no man living shall be justified.”” — editor's note: Ibid. 5.
Read the whole comment“For as “confession and beauty are before God,” so a sinner who confesses his sins and says: “my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness” loses his foul wounds and is made whole and clean.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 5.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For the sinner who confesses his sin says ‘My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.’” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 5
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Augustine of Hippo
““My wounds stink and are corrupt” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““They set me in places,” as though in Hades, as though in the tomb, as though in His very Passion, “as the dead of the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 4, 5.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For the man who has sinned also has this confession to make: “My wounds stank, and were corrupt, because of my foolishness.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. 5.
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John Chrysostom
“Wherefore the Prophet declaring its nature cried out, “My wounds stink, and are corrupt.” ( Ps. xxxviii. 5.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Hear the Prophet saying, “My wounds stank, and were corrupt.” ( Ps. xxxviii. 5 , LXX.) And dost thou in words entreat God to forget thy misdeeds, and dost thou by what thou thyself doest, robbing and grasping, and placing thy sin upon the altar, cause Him to remember them continually?” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…of tears, and is much more laborious, received by him who washes his bed every night and his couch with tears; whose bruises stink through his wickedness; and who goeth mourning and of a sad countenance; who imitates the repentance of Manasseh and the humiliation of the Ninevites upon which God had mercy; who…” — editor's note: Ib. xxxviii. 5.
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