Sin And The Sorrow Of Death

Περιέσχον με ὠδῖνες θανάτου καὶ χείμαρροι ἀνομίας ἐξετάραξάν με. Ἥ καὶ χείμαρροι ἀνομίας διὰ τὸ εις ἀνομίαν ἔρχεσθαι τοὺς μὴ γενναίως ὑφισταμένους πειρατήρια· καὶ μὴν ὠδῖνες θανάτου καὶ ᾅδου τὰ πρὸς θάνατον ἁμαρτήματα· οὐκοῦν καὶ χείμαρροι ἀνομίας ἐρεῖς τὰ ῥεύματα τῆς κακίας· καὶ θανάτου κακίας, τὰς πρακτικὰς ἁμαρτίας. Δυδυμος του Αλεξανδρεως, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος ΙΖ' Source: Migne PG 39.1213b

'The sorrows of death and the floods of iniquity came over me.'1 The torrents of iniquity on account of those who turn to iniquity because they are not able to endure trials; and the sorrows of death and hell are the mortal sins. And indeed one may say that the torrents of iniquity are floods of evil and the evil of death is the practice of sin. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 17 1 Ps 17.5