Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
63. "O learn me sweetness, and understanding, and knowledge," he saith, "for I have believed Thy commandments" (ver. 66). He prayeth these things may be increased and perfected. For they who said, "Lord, increase our faith," had faith. And as long as we live in this world, these are the words of those who are making progress. But he addeth, "understanding," or, as most copies read, "discipline." Now the word discipline, for which the Greeks use paideia, is employed in Scripture, where instruction through tribulation is to be understood: according to the words, "Whom the Lord loveth He disciplineth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." In the literature of the Church this is usually called discipline. For this word, paideia, is used in the Greek in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the Latin translator saith, "No discipline for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous," etc. He therefore toward whom the Lord dealeth in sweetness, that is, he in whom He mercifully inspires d...
Goodness to others (Menochius) in want. (Worthington)
Discipline, or patience under chastisement. (St. Augustine) (Theodoret)
Hebrew, "wisdom "or discernment how to act, and knowledge of what regards thy law and revealed truths. (Berthier)
