O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Indignation. Literally, "fury. "(Haydock)
Such strong expressions were requisite to make the carnal Jews fear God's judgments, though a being of infinite perfection can have no passion. (St. Chrysostom)
David does not beg to be free from suffering, (Haydock) but he requests that God would chastise him with moderation, Jeremias x. 24., and xlvi. 28. (Calmet)
Justice without mercy is reserved for the last day. (St. Gregory)
Wrath. This regards those who have built wood, on the foundation. They shall be purified by fire. (St. Augustine) Purgatory was then believed in the 4th Century. (Berthier)
Let me not be condemned either to it, or hell. (St. Gregory, hic. and Psalm xxxvii.)
