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Psalms 7:9

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"But let the wickedness of sinners be consummated" [Psalm 7:9]. He says, "be consummated," be completed, according to that in the Apocalypse, "Let the righteous become more righteous, and let the filthy be filthy still." [Revelation 22:11] For the wickedness of those men appears consummate, who crucified the Son of God; but greater is theirs who will not live uprightly, and hate the precepts of truth, for whom the Son of God was crucified. …

Exposition on Psalm 7 ↗

Jerome

'Let the wickedness of sinners be consummated, and thou shalt direct the just.' My justice cannot be directed, unless their iniquity — namely, of the Jews — be fulfilled.

Homily 3, on Psalm 7 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Against this petition -- that good things be his and that he suffer nothing evil -- it sometimes seems good and useful to be oppressed by the wicked, and even beyond this, the good have evils in this world and the wicked have goods: Lk. 16: "Remember that you received good things in your life," etc. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗