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Psalms 52:7

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"And the just shall see, and shall fear; and over him they shall laugh" (ver. 7). Shall fear when? Shall laugh when? Let us therefore understand, and make a distinction between those two times of fearing and laughing, which have their several uses. For so long as we are in this world, not yet must we laugh, lest hereafter we mourn. We have read what is reserved at the end for this Doeg, we have read and because we understand and believe, we see but fear. …

Exposition on Psalm 52 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Their pride, because they did not hope in God but trusted in themselves, and they shall say: the just shall say, "Behold the man who did not set God as his helper," that is, did not consider that he needed the help of God: Ps. 11: "Our lips," etc. Deut. 32: "He has forsaken his maker." Concerning vain confidence; hence he says, "But he hoped in the multitude of his riches": Prov. 11: "He who trusts in his riches shall fall": 1 Tim. 6: "Charge the rich of this world," etc. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗