Psalm 78:8 (WEB)
and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
““That they may not become, like their fathers, a crooked and embittering generation: a generation that hath not guided their heart, and the spirit thereof hath not been trusted with God” (ver. 8).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Therefore it is no longer a generation which hath not guided the heart thereof, but now a generation guiding.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 8, p. 369, supra.
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Clement of Alexandria
“David also says of them, “A perverse and provoking race; a race which set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God: they kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in His law.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxviii. 8, 10.
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