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Psalms 140:2

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Who have imagined unrighteousnesses in their heart" [Psalm 140:2]....From them free me, from them let Your hand be most powerful to deliver me. For easy is it to avoid open enmities, easy is it to turn aside from an enemy declared and manifest, while iniquity is in his lips as well as his heart; he is a troublesome enemy, he is secret, he is with difficulty avoided, who bears good things in his lips, while in his heart he conceals evil things. "All the day long did they make war." What is, "war"? …

Exposition on Psalm 140 ↗

Jerome

Who have devised iniquities in their heart. He is speaking about the heretics.

Homily 50, on Psalm 139 ↗