Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
N'entraîne pas mon coeur à des choses mauvaises, A des actions coupables avec les hommes qui font le mal, Et que je ne prenne aucune part à leurs festins!
KJV
Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
5], ad 3). Hence Augustine says pointedly that it "lies in wait for good deeds"; and it is written ( Ps. 141:4 ): "In the way wherein I walked, the proud [*Cf. Ps. 139:6, 'The proud have hidden a net for me.'] [Vulg.: 'they'] have hidden a snare for me." Hence no very great gravi…
Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
rd with words of excuse. Jerome: For truly that which is written, “To offer excuses excusing sins” [ Ps. 141:4 ] happened to this servant, so that to slothfulness and idleness was added also the sin of pride. For he who ought to have honestly acknowledged his fault, and to have e…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
I, 25, 26) . Deficiat in amore 412 tuo et liquescat anima mea, ut in deficiendo ex me spiritum meum (Psal. CXLI, 4) , psallam et cantem tibi amoris delicias et divitias charitatis ipsius, per quam torrente voluptatis potantur aeternae (Psal. XXXV, 9) , quorum affectio prorsus a t…
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