Works Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Enarrationes in psalmos (CCEL) Expositions on the Book of Psalms
Psalm CXIX.

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Next he addeth: "I will keep Thy ordinances" (ver. 8)....But what is it that followeth? "O forsake me not even exceedingly!" or, as some copies have it, "even too much," instead of, "even exceedingly." 1 But since God had left the world to the desert of sins, He would have forsaken it "even exceedingly," if so powerful a cure had not supported it, that is, the grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ; but now, according to this prayer of the body of Christ, He forsook it not "even exceedingly;" for, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 ...

  1. "For the same Greek word is here too, namely, sphodra: as though he wished himself to be forsaken of God, but not even exceedingly.'"--The author. ↩

  2. 2 Cor. v. 19. ↩

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