There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
4. "For Thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presseth me sore" (ver. 2). "There is no soundness in my flesh, from the face of Thine anger" (ver. 3). He has now begun telling these evils, which he is suffering here: and yet even this already was from the wrath of the Lord, because it was of the vengeance of the Lord. "Of what vengeance?" That which He took upon Adam. For think not that punishment was not inflicted upon him, or that God had said to no purpose, "Thou shalt surely die;" or that we suffer anything in this life, except from that death which we earned by the original sin. ...Whence then do His "arrows stick fast in" him? The very punishment, the very vengeance, and haply the pains both of mind and of body, which it is necessary for us to suffer here, these he describes by these self-same "arrows." For of these arrows holy Job also made mention, and said that the arrows of the Lord stuck fast in him, whilst he was labouring under those pains. We are used, however, to ca...
Sins. These occasion my great affliction, when I reflect on thy justice. (Worthington)
I chastise myself. (Eusebius)
St. Augustine explains all this of original sin. (Calmet)
Jesus bore the weight of all our sins, which are above our comprehension, ver. 5. (Berthier)
