Fathers

Loading…

What the Fathers say

Psalms 55:16

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Therefore to the Lord I have cried out" [Psalm 55:16]. The Body of Christ and the oneness of Christ in anguish, in weariness, in uneasiness, in the tribulation of its exercise, that One Man, Oneness in One Body set, when He was wearying His soul in crying out from the ends of the earth; says, "From the ends of the earth to You I have cried out, when My heart was being vexed." Himself one, but a oneness that One! And Himself one, not in one place one, but from the ends of the earth is crying as one. …

Exposition on Psalm 55 ↗