Psalm 50:20 (WEB)
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
Fathers and councils · 10
Cyprian of Carthage
“Thou satest and spakest against thy brother, and slanderedst thine own mother’s son.”” — editor's note: Ps. l. 19, 20.
Read the whole comment“Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.”” — editor's note: Ps. l. 20.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Sitting against thy brother thou didst detract” (ver. 20).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“And that thou mayest know this certainly, hear what the prophet says, “Thou satest and spakest against thy brother.” ( Ps. l. 20.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Thou satest and spakest against thy brother.” ( Ps. l. 16 and 20 , LXX.) And if he speak the truth, so also he is to be pitied; since even the Pharisee spake the truth; yet he did no harm to him who heard him, but rather good, while he deprived himself of ten thousand blessings, enduring shipwreck by this accusation.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“Do not listen to those who speak against their neighbours, lest whilst you listen to others, you be stirred up yourselves to speak against your neighbours, and it be said to each of you: “Thou satest and spakest against thy brother.”” — editor's note: Ps. l. [xlix.] 20.
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Jerome
“Speak against nobody, and do not slander your mother’s son.” — editor's note: Ps. l. 20.
Read the whole comment“They speak against their brother, they slander their own mother’s son.” — editor's note: Ps. l. 20.
Read the whole comment“These things hast thou done and I kept silence; thou thoughtest wickedly that I was such an one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.”” — editor's note: Ps. l. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“…aside your heart unto words of evil lest the psalmist say to you: “Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son,” and lest you become as “the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,” and as the man whose “words were softer than oil yet were they drawn swords.”” — editor's note: Ps. l. 20.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.108.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 41.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.108.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Letters Letter 50.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 41.