For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
All Commentaries on Psalms 38:7 Go To Psalms 38
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Loins. Psoai, as the Alexandrian and Complutensian Septuagint read, though the Vatican has psuche, soul, (Haydock) with the Arabic
Illusions. Hebrew nikle, "burning. "(Pagnin) "shameful ulcer. "(Houbigant) "Ignominy. "(St. Jerome) (Haydock)
David acknowledges that the irregular motions of concupiscence were an effect of his transgression. The Jews and Greeks place these sensations in the loins, 3 Kings viii. 10. Plato triplicem finxit animam, cujus principatum in capite, iram in pectore, cupiditatem subter præcordia locavit. (Cicero, Tusc. 1.) (Calmet)
Flesh. Concupiscence striving in me.
