“Since then the Body of Christ is in the end to be severed in body also from the unholy and wicked, but now meanwhile groans among them, what does the "love of Christ among the daughters, as the lily among thorns"? [Song of Songs 2:2] What are her words? What her conscience? What is the "appearance of the king's daught…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 139
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23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
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21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
— Psalms 139:23 —
24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.