Psalm 74:19 (WEB)
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.15Conference V
“For the prophet would not have prayed in these words, “Deliver not up to beasts, O Lord, the soul that confesseth to Thee,” unless he had known that because of their pride of heart some were given over again to those faults which they had overcome, in order that they might be humbled.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. (lxxiv.) 19.
Read the whole comment “…of spiritual wickedness (from which the blessed David, in his longing to be free, says: “Deliver not, O Lord, to the beasts the soul that trusteth in Thee”), but when they attack them they ought to beat them off with the sign of the cross and drive them far away; and when they rage furiously against them they should…” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiii. (lxxiv.) 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Deliver not to the beasts a soul confessing to Thee” (ver. 19).…To what beasts, save to those the heads whereof were broken in pieces upon the water?” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“It is of such that the Psalmist speaks when he writes: “deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the wild beast,” and “Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds;” creatures who write iniquity and speak lies against the Lord and lift up their mouths against the Most High.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxiv. 19, R.V.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in The Institutes I.8.