“What, really, does our spiritual father intend to teach? "I will teach you the fear of the Lord." When he ordered us above to fear the Lord, he also showed the profit that comes from fear, saying, "Those who fear him do not lack anything." At present also, they hand down to us a certain teaching of divine fear. Now it…”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 16:8
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2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
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1Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
— Psalms 64:2 —
3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.