Psalm 17:5 Douay-Rheims

Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.

Augustine of Hippo

A.D. 354–430 Patristic

"To perfect My steps in Your paths" [Psalm 17:5]. That the love of the Church might be perfected in the strait ways, whereby she arrives at Your rest. "That My footsteps be not moved." That the signs of My way, which, like footsteps, have been imprinted on the Sacraments and Apostolical writings, be not moved, that they may mark them who would follow Me. Or at least, that I may still abide fixedly in eternity, after that I have accomplished the hard ways, and have finished My steps in the straits of Your paths.

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A.D. 430 · on Ps 17:5 (Exposition on Psalm 17)

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