“They often attacked me from my youth: and indeed they could not prevail against me. They attacked me with base thoughts, they attacked me with anger. I gave in to the thoughts: if I gave in to the temptations, if I did something that the thought was driving me to, if anger overcame me and I did injury to my brother, I…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 43, on Psalm 128
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2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
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1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
— Psalms 129:2 —
3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.