Psalm 131:17 Douay-Rheims

There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

Augustine of Hippo

A.D. 354–430 Patristic

A lamp was therefore prepared for Christ our Lord, John the Baptist; his enemies, slanderous questioners, retreated confused when the light of the lamp was brought forth; it was fulfilled: I will clothe his enemies with shame. But we, brothers, recognizing through John the Baptist the precursor the Lord, and even more through the testimony of the Lord himself, of whom he said: I have a greater testimony than John, believing in Christ, let us be made the body of his head, so that Christ may be one head and body; and in all of us having been made one it will be fulfilled: And upon him shall my sanctification flourish.

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A.D. 430 · on Ps 132:17-18 (SERMON 308A.8)

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