“Keep me from the snare which they have set for me. Always either heretics or demons stretch snares for us. For faults are near to virtues. They have set a snare for me in almsgiving, if I stretch out my hand so that men may see, and, as though doing a good deed, I come into a fault and into sin. But if I give a tunic…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 51, on Psalm 140
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9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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7Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
8But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
— Psalms 141:9 —
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.