Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Chapter 3: Psalms 39–59

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which blasphemers protect must be condemned as severely as possible. Second, those spreading blasphemy must be condemned because they stubbornly persevere in sin. Third, because without the help of God truth cannot conquer, it is necessary to ask God to repress errors and those committing the errors. This is prayed for when one curses the unfaithful, and yet it is an intensely faithful and necessary prayer. Fourth, such curses in the prophets should be read not as human anger but rather as the voice of the Holy Spirit, expressing the ultimate way of thinking about blasphemies and consoling the church so that it may know the truth that it will conquer, and God will repress and root out unfaithful teaching and those who teach blasphemy.