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Psalms 38:20

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"They also that render evil for good, were speaking evil of me, because I have pursued the thing that is just" (ver. 20). Therefore was it that I was requited evil for good. What is meant by "pursued after the thing that is just"? Not forsaken it. That you might not always understand persecutio in a bad sense, He means by persecutus pursued after, thoroughly followed. …

Exposition on Psalm 38 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Those who repay evil for good." Now there is a fourfold repayment. One repays good for good; another repays evil for evil; and these are common to both good and bad, because even a good person repays the evil of punishment for the evil of fault. Another repays good for evil, and this properly belongs to the good. The fourth repays evil for good, and this belongs to enemies. Jer. 18: "Is evil repaid for good?" "They detracted from me." Rom. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗