Psalm 39:3 (WEB)
My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:
Fathers and councils · 5
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26Conference XVI
“I was dumb and was humbled, and kept silence from good things;” and he should not pay any heed to his present state, nor give vent to what his violent rage suggests and his exasperated mind expresses at the moment, but…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxvi. (lxxvii.) 5; xxxviii. (xxxix.) 2, 3.
Read the whole comment “I was dumb and was humbled and kept silence from good things.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxviii. (xxxix.) 2, 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
““And while I was musing, the fire burned” (ver. 3).…I reflected on the words of my Lord, “Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou oughtest to have put My money to the exchangers, and I at My coming should receive it again with usury.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Does not your heart wax hot within you, and in your meditation a fire kindle, that these men’s evil works ye should pursue with good works, that ye should cut off from them occasion of a foul trafficking, by which your estimation is hurt, and a stumbling-block put before the weak?” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 3. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“And yet, “while I was musing, the fire burned,” so that “I seek Thy face evermore.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxix. 3
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.7.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 36.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 36.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26.
Cited together in The Institutes IV.41.
Cited together in The Institutes IV.41.
Cited together in The Institutes IV.41.