Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 83.
Editorial footnote · The Twelve Books, Chapter XI.; original source section: Chapter 11; original book/conference: Book I., editorial note cite_note-4 · Original source
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Chapter XI.; original source section: Chapter 11; original book/conference: Book I.
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Rev. Edgar C. S. Gibson (M.A.).
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be destroyed, and who sing with might and main this utterance of the blessed David: “For I am become like a bottle in the frost,” because when the sinful flesh is destroyed in the inmost parts they can distend by the power of the spirit the dead skin of the outward man. And therefore he significantly adds “in the frost,” because they are never satisfied merely with the mortification of the heart, but also have the motions of the outward man and the incentives of nature itself frozen by the approach of the frost of continence from without, if only, as the Apostle says, they no longer allow any reign of sin in their mortal body, nor wear a flesh that resists the spirit.