O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Ver. 24. O Lord, correct me; but with judgment,] a i.e., In mercy and in measure. Correction is not simply to be deprecated; the prophet here cries, Correct me; David saith, It was good for me. Job calleth God's afflicting of us his magnifying of us. Jer 7:17 Feri Domine, feri clementer; ipse paratus sum, saith Luther, - Smite, Lord, smite me, but gently, and I am ready to bear it patiently. King Alfred prayed God to send him always some sickness, whereby his body might be tamed, and he the better disposed and affectioned to Godward. Ecclesiastical history telleth of one Servulus, who, sick of a palsy, so that his life was a lingering death, said ordinarily, God be thanked.
a Cum ratione seu modo. Leniter et discrete. - A Lap.