Augustine of Hippo, on Ps 138:17

“But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.”

“And what followeth? "But to me Thy friends are made very honourable, O God" (ver. 17); those very ones, who "wandered in the day, and none was in them," became Thy friends, and were made very honourable to me. That bone was made in them in secret after the resurrection of the Lord, and they suffered for His Name, at whose death they had been amazed. "Mightily strengthened were their chieftainships." They became Apostles, they became leaders of the Church, they became rams leading their flocks, "mightily strengthened."”

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