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Psalms 52:3

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

There follows then what? All your might and all your thought of iniquity all the day, and meditation of malignity in your tongue without intermission, has performed what, done what? "As with a sharp razor you have done deceit" [Psalm 52:3]. See what do evil men to Saints, they scrape their hair. What is it that I have said? …

Exposition on Psalm 52 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"You have loved." Here he treats of the affection of the wicked, or of the sinner, for harming his neighbor. And this affection consists in two things: namely, in external and internal matters. First, therefore, in external matters he shows the withdrawal of justice. He says, therefore, "You have loved malice more than benignity." Benignity, that is, "good fire-quality": and so it makes the soul of a man melt toward sharing good things; malice, on the contrary, drives a man's impulse to harm. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗