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What the Fathers say

Psalms 119:73

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

..."Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me" (ver. 73). The hands of God are the power of God. Or if the plural number moveth them, since it is not said, Thy hand, but, "Thy hands;" let them understand by the hands of God the power and wisdom of God, both of which titles are given to one Christ, who is also understood under the figure, Arm of the Lord. …

Exposition on Psalm 119 ↗

Bonaventure

Second, we ought to speak of the commandments of God, that we may better know them. For the more frequently a man walks along a certain way, the better he knows it. Whence Gregory says that a man comes to know the way by walking it more frequently. But the way of going to the fatherland is through the observance of the commandments; but a man cannot keep the commandments of God unless he knows them, and he does not know them except by hearing discourse about them. …

Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 3 ↗