Psalm 44:20 (WEB)
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“And that which is written, “Thou formest my grief in teaching me,” could only be said unto God by one who was “leaping beyond” his fellows; “Thou formest my grief in teaching me;” Thou makest, that is to say, a lesson for me out of my sorrow.” — editor's note: Ps. xliv. 20. Qui fingis dolorem in præcepto (Vulgate, laborem); E.V. “which frameth mischief by a law.”
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…our lengthened sojourn, like holy David, who calls things here the tents of darkness, and the place of affliction, and the deep mire, and the shadow of death; because we linger in the tombs we bear about with us, because, though we are gods, we die like men the death of sin?” — editor's note: Ib. xliv. 20.
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