Annotatio CLXV

”For my life is spent in sorrow,” etc. — Psalm 30:11

Nicholas of Cusa, in a sermon which he published on the present little verse, both on account of those things which in this passage are said by the Prophet, and on account of many other things, believed that Christ the Lord sustained in [his] soul the pain of hell.¹ Augustine, Bishop of Nebbio, noted this opinion, in the scholia on the Octapla appended to this psalm, asserting that the opinion of this most learned man — and most eminent in all knowledge — is neither to be embraced nor to be spurned.