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Psalms 103:9

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth He His anger for ever" [Psalm 103:9]. Since it is in consequence of His anger that we live in the scourges and corruption of mortality: we have this in punishment for the first sin. ...Is it not through His anger, my brethren, that "in the sweat of thy face and in toil thou shalt eat bread, and the earth shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee"? This was said to our forefathers. …

Exposition on Psalm 103 ↗