Psalm 118:165 Douay-Rheims

Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Augustine of Hippo

A.D. 354–430 Patristic

"Great is the peace," he saith, "that they have who love Thy law: and there is no offence to them" (ver. 165). Doth this mean that the law itself is not an offence to them that love it, or that there is no offence from any source unto them that love the law? But both senses are rightly understood. For he who loveth the law of God, honoureth in it even what he doth not understand; and what seemeth to him to sound absurd, he judgeth rather that he doth not understand, and that there is some great meaning hidden: thus the law of God is not an offence to him...

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A.D. 430 · on Ps 119:165 (On the Psalms, Psalm 119)

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