Fathers

Loading…

What the Fathers say

Psalms 31:6

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Thou hatest them that hold to vanity uselessly." Thou hatest them that hold to the false happiness of the world. "But I have trusted in the Lord."

Exposition on Psalm 31 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"But I." Above, he assigned the reason for his hope from the divine condition; here he assigns it from the experience of divine benefits. Concerning which he does two things. First, he proposes hope; second, its effect, at "I will be glad." He says therefore: God hates the wicked; "But I," who do not observe vanities, "have hoped in God alone," not in the god of riches, 1 Tim. 6. The effect of hope is spiritual joy. Rom. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗