Psalm 78:57 (WEB)
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“For that generation crooked and embittering, inasmuch as for these corporal blessings they put not off the coat of oldness, “Did tempt” yet, “and provoked the high God, and His testimonies they kept not (ver. 56): and they turned them away, and they kept not the covenant, like their fathers” (ver. 57).” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“It sometimes happens that an arrow when it is aimed at a hard object rebounds upon the bowman, wounding the would-be wounder, and thus, the words are fulfilled, “they were turned aside like a deceitful bow,” and in another passage: “whoso casteth a stone on high casteth it on his own head.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 57.
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