For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
22. "For I am prepared for the scourges" (ver. 17). Quite a magnificent expression; as if He were saying, "It was even for this that I was born; that I might suffer." For He was not to be born, but from Adam, to whom the scourge is due. But sinners are in this life sometimes not scourged at all, or are scourged less than their deserts: because the wickedness of their heart is given over as already desperate. Those, however, for whom eternal life is prepared, must needs be scourged in this life: for that sentence is true: "My son, faint not under the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary when thou art rebuked of Him." "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." Let not mine enemies therefore insult over me; let "them not magnify themselves;" and if my Father scourgeth me, "I am prepared for the scourge;" because there is an inheritance in store for me. Thou wilt not submit to the scourge: the inheritance is not bestowed upon thee. For "every s...
Scourges. Protestants, to "halt "let Selah. (Haydock)
St. Jerome ad plagas. Chaldean, "for calamity. "(Berthier) See Psalm xxxiv. 15. I speak not through impatience, as I know that my sins deserve still more. (Calmet)
I resign myself to thee. (Worthington)
This was admirably verified in Jesus Christ, the victim for our sins. (Calmet)
Before me. I cannot forget my transgression. (Haydock)
