Bonaventure, on Ps 44:16

“They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the king.”

“The Psalm: He established them as princes over all the earth: it is established that this was said of the Apostles: therefore all the earth is under the principate of the Apostles: but this principate is a stable principate, according to that word of the Psalm: Their principate has been exceedingly strengthened: but it is not stable unless it is united, because every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; nor is it united unless it has one principal prince: therefore according to the prophetic testimony all the earth ought to be subject to one who is the prince of all. Whence Bernard says in the third book to Eugenius: "Your forebears were sent forth, not to subdue certain regions, but the world itself: and indeed their sound went forth into all the earth." And afterwards: "Their principate has been exceedingly strengthened: they have been established as princes over all the earth. You have succeeded to his inheritance, thus you are the heir, and the world is the inheritance."”

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