“If you know there is sin, be silent. Do not add to your guilt by denying it. If you are not aware of sin, be silent. You are secure in your innocence. The reports of other people cannot nail any sin to a conscience that knows itself to be innocent.”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms
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2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
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1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
— Psalms 39:2 —
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.