Psalm 28:10 Douay-Rheims

The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king for ever.

Augustine of Hippo

A.D. 354–430 Patristic

Therefore, God dwells in each one singly as in his temples, and in all of them gathered together as in his temple. As long as this temple, like the ark of Noah, is tempest-tossed in this world, the words of the psalm are verified: "The Lord dwells in the flood," although, if we consider the many people of the faithful of all races whom the Apocalypse describes under the name of waters, they can also be appropriately meant by "the Lord dwells in the flood." But the psalm goes on: "And the Lord shall sit as king forever," doubtless in that very temple of his, established in eternal life after the tempest of this world. Thus, God, who is everywhere present and everywhere wholly present, does not dwell everywhere but only in his temple, to which, by his grace, he is kind and gracious, but in his indwelling he is received more fully by some, less by others.

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A.D. 430 · on Ps 29:10 (LETTER 187:38)

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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