Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. Psalm CXX. 1. The Psalm which we have just heard chanted, and have responded to with our voices, is short, and very profitable. Ye will not long toil in hearing, nor will ye toil fruitlessly in working.
Degrees are either of ascent or of descent.
There are therefore both those who ascend and those who descend on that ladder. They who progress towards the understanding of things spiritual. Let him at the same time experience what is reported of us. That He might now place him at the steps of ascent. A treacherous tongue, one that hath the semblance of counsel, and the bane of real mischief.