Psalm 39:1 (WEB)
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Fathers and councils · 6
Ambrose of Milan
“How shall I break forth into speech of things whereof I am afraid, when David prays that a watch may be set over his mouth in the matter of things whereof he has knowledge?” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 1, 2; cxli. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“Lastly, the Saint of the Lord said: “I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. [xxxviii.] 1.
Read the whole comment“He spoke to himself, and conversed with himself, as these words show: “I said, I will take heed to my ways.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. [xxxviii.] 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
““I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue” (ver. 1).…For it is not without reason that the tongue is set in a moist place, but because it is so prone to slip.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“I had made up my mind to use the words of the psalmist: “While the wicked was before me I was dumb with silence; I was humbled, and I held my peace even from good” and “I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 1, 2, Vulg.
Read the whole comment“…her to her face, she used to chant the words of the psalter: “While the wicked was before me, I was dumb with silence; I held my peace even from good:” and again, “I as a deaf man heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth:” and “I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 1, 2, acc. to the Gallican psalter.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.