The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
4. "May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips" (ver. 3). He says "all," that no one may suppose himself excepted: as the Apostle says, "Upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and of the Greek." "The tongue speaking great things:" the proud tongue.
Lips. "The saints do not curse, but foretell what will happen. "(St. Jerome)
Hebrew, "the Lord will destroy "the deceitful, (Berthier) who mean to injure men; (Haydock) and the proud, who attack God and religion, which they pretend they can prove (Berthier) to be a mere fiction, by their superior eloquence! (Haydock)
