Psalm 41:4 (WEB)
I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
Fathers and councils · 11
Augustine of Hippo
“For good it is to confess unto Thee, and to say, “Be merciful unto me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee;” and not to abuse Thy goodness for a license to sin, but to remember the words of the Lord, “Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4.
Read the whole comment“And in this world He was, and into this world He came to save sinners, unto whom my soul doth confess, that He may heal it, for it hath sinned against Him.” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4.
Read the whole comment“…from blame and, after I had committed any fault, not to acknowledge that I had done any,—“that Thou mightest heal my soul because it had sinned against Thee;” but I loved to excuse it, and to accuse something else (I wot not what) which was with me, but was not I. But assuredly it was wholly I, and my impiety had…” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4.
Read the whole comment“Therefore because all these chastisements, in which all our bed is turned in our infirmity, man ought to acknowledge that he suffers for sin; let him turn himself, and say what follows: “I said, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Thou shouldest cry unto Him, as it is cried in another Psalm, “I said, Lord, be merciful unto me, for I have sinned against Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4.
Read the whole comment“Whence also the above-mentioned Apostle saith not, “Every one is tempted” by lust, but added, “by his own:” that he who hears this may understand, how he ought to cry, “I said, Lord, have mercy upon me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4
Read the whole comment“To say to those words of the Psalm which none but the humbled soul saith, “I said, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4.
Read the whole comment“And as if wishing to lay hold of his God, “These things,” saith he, “I remembered, and poured out my soul above me.”” — editor's note: Ps. xli. 4, 5.
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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.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Or else we allege excuses in our sins, by devising pleas in defence of our falls, or tightly closing our ears, like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears, we are obstinate in refusing to hear the voice of the charmer, and be treated with the medicines of wisdom, by which spiritual sickness is healed.” — editor's note: Ps. cxli. 4 (LXX.).
Read the whole comment“You rely upon this or that, and “pretend pretences in sins;” am waiting for Epiphany; I prefer Easter; I will wait for Pentecost.” — editor's note: Ps. cxli. 4.
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Cross-references · 18
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Cited together in Confessions V.10.
Cited together in Confessions V.10.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.3.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.3.
Cited together in Confessions IV.3.
Cited together in Confessions V.10.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.
Cited together in Confessions IV.3.
Cited together in Confessions IV.3.
Cited together in Confessions IV.12.