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Psalms 28:9

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance" [Psalm 28:9]. I intercede therefore, after My Flesh has flourished again, because You have said, "Desire of Me, and I will give You the heathen for Your inheritance;" "Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance:" for "all Mine are Yours." [John 17:10] "And rule them, and set them up even for ever." And rule them in this temporal life, and raise them from hence into life eternal.

Exposition on Psalm 28 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Save." Here he shows the continuation of the benefits or of salvation. And first he sets forth the salvation. Second, the manner, at "Bless." He says therefore: O Lord, you who are my protector, "save your people," that is, I ask that you lead them to salvation: Jn. 17: "I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil": Is. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗