Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

it, that is, condemn it, and turn away from it. Whatever pleasing thing it has promised to allure you to sin; whatever grievous thing it has threatened to drive you on to evil doing; all is nothing, all passes away. It is worthy to be despised, in order that it may be trampled upon, not gazed upon lest it be accepted.