Psalm 52:2 (WEB)
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Fathers and councils · 4
Augustine of Hippo
““In iniquity the whole day upon injustice hath thy tongue thought” (ver. 2): that is, in the whole of time, without weariness, without intermission, without cessation.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Ye have but just now heard this that I have said in the Psalm, “Thou hast worked deceit like a sharp razor.”” — editor's note: Ps. li. 4, Sept. (lii. 2, English version).
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Ambrose of Milan
“David also says: “Thou hast used deceit as a sharp razor,” pointing out by this the treacherous man, just as an implement of this kind is used to help adorn a man, yet often wounds him.” — editor's note: Ps. lii. [li.] 2.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…in the morning, and that we may be made to hear of joy and gladness, spoken into godly ears, that we may not be a sharp sword, nor a whetted razor, nor turn under our tongue labour and toil, but that we may speak the Wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden Wisdom, reverencing the fiery tongues.” — editor's note: Ib. lvii. 4; lii. 2.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.11.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.11.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.11.