Psalm 73:2 (WEB)
But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
Fathers and councils · 11
Jerome
“…being interpreted, disturbance: for“Mount Sion is on the sides of the north, the city of the Great King,” is ever exposed to hatred, and in every trial says “But my feet had well nigh slipped.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 2.
Read the whole comment“Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 2, 3, 11, 12, Vulg.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VII.31Conference VII
“They are not in the labour of men, neither shall they be scourged like other men,” since hereafter they shall be punished with the devils, to whom in this world it was not vouchsafed to be scourged in the lot and discipline of sons, together with men.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxii. (lxxiii.) 2–5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For he had seen the felicity of evil men, and well-pleased he had been to be an evil man, seeing evil men to reign, seeing that it was well with them, that they…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment““But my feet were almost moved” (ver. 2).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“But my feet were almost moved.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“Thy feet will totter, thou wilt suppose thyself to worship without cause, when thou seest those things to be with them who do not worship Him.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 2.
Read the whole comment“For when the power of human wrath hath killed the body, it hath nothing more to do: but God hath power both to punish here, and after the death of the body to send into Hell, and by the few who are thus taught, the vain and seductive prosperity of the wicked is judged to be greater wrath of God.…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 28; Ps. lxxiii. 2, 3, 17.
Read the whole comment““Because I was jealous at sinners, looking at the peace of sinners.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment““Because I was envious at sinners, beholding the peace of sinners.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. 1–3.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…jaws: before my feet had been set upon the rock, made like hart’s feet, and my footsteps directed in a godly fashion so that they should not well-nigh slip, nor slip at all; before all my members had become instruments of righteousness, and all mortality had been put off, and swallowed up of life, and had yielded…” — editor's note: Ib. lxxiii. 2.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VII.31.