The Expositions On The Psalms by St. Augustine of Hippo

Author:St. Augustine of Hippo [Hippo, St. Augustine of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9783849621032
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

20. “Because my heart was delighted” (ver. 21). He is saying with what things he is tempted: “because my heart was delighted,” he saith, “my reins also were changed.” When those temporal things delighted me, my reins were changed. It may also be understood thus: “because my heart was delighted” in God, “my reins also were changed, that is, my lusts were changed, and I became wholly chaste. “My reins were changed.” And hear how. “And I was brought unto nothing, and I knew not” (ver. 22). I, the very man, who now say these things of rich men, once longed for such things: therefore “even I was brought to nothing” when my steps were almost overthrown. “And I was brought unto nothing, and I knew not.” We must not therefore despair even of them, against whom I was saying such things.

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