George Leo Haydock

House; the tabernacle, (Haydock) or temple, (Calmet) unless he may rather allude to God’s presence and union, or his enjoyment in heaven. (Berthier) — He had already expressed a similar wish, Psalm xxv. 8. (Calmet) — “When we love what God approves, he will surely grant our request.” (St. Augustine) — David esteemed it as a special benefit to be in the Catholic Church, which is the only true house of God. (Worthington) — Delight; beauty and sweetness, as the Hebrew implies. Many of the ancients read, “the will,” voluntatem, with Sixtus V, &c. But the edition of Clement VIII agrees with the Hebrew and Oriental versions. (Calmet) — To comply with God’s will, is the only means of arriving at his beatific vision. (Haydock) — David was more grieved at being kept at a distance from the tabernacle, than from his own family. He envied the happiness of those who could attend the divine worship. (Menochius)