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What the Fathers say

Psalms 44:15

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"My shame is continually before me; and the confusion of my face has covered me." "For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth": that is to say, from the voice of them that insult over me, and who make it a charge against me that I worship Thee, that I confess Thee! and who make it a charge against me that I bear that name by which all charges against me shall be blotted out. "For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth," that is, of him that speaketh against me. …

Exposition on Psalm 44 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"All the day." Here he treats of what is born in the heart from outward reproach. And first he sets forth the shame. Second he adds the cause, at "At the voice." First he sets forth the shame, and says, "All the day my shame is before me," that is, it is continually in my sight. Or, "against me," that is, against what is owed to me, namely the honor that is owed to the virtuous. Shame, according to the Philosopher, is the fear of disgrace. Now there is a twofold disgrace. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗