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Psalms 70:3

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Augustine of Hippo

"Let them be turned away forthwith blushing, that say to me, Well, well" [Psalm 70:3]. Two are the kinds of persecutors, revilers and flatterers. The tongue of the flatterer doth more persecute than the hand of the slayer: for this also the Scripture hath called a furnace. …

On the Psalms, Psalm 70 ↗