“And since patience is needful in order to endure, until the harvest, a certain distinction without separation, if we may so speak (for they are together with us, and therefore not yet separated; the tares however being still tares, and the grain still grain, and therefore they are already distinct); since then a kind…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 43
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2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
— Psalms 43:2 —
3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.