The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
17. "The tribulations of my heart have been multiplied" (ver. 17). The tribulations of my heart have been multiplied by the abounding of iniquity and the waxing cold of love. "O bring Thou me out of my necessities." Since I must needs bear this, that by enduring unto the end I may be saved, bring Thou me out of my necessities.
Multiplied. Hebrew, "enlarged. "So in the gradual for the second Sunday of Lent, we read dilatatæ. (Berthier)
Afflictions must be endured. (Worthington; Sen. ep. 12.)
