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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Let us see then what God has sworn. "I have sworn," He says, "to David My servant; your seed will I establish for ever" [Psalm 89:4]. But what is the seed of David, but that of Abraham. And what is the seed of Abraham? "And to your seed," He says, "which is Christ." [Galatians 3:16] But perhaps that Christ, the Head of the Church, the Saviour of the body, [Ephesians 5:23] is the seed of Abraham, and therefore of David; but we are not Abraham's seed? …
Jerome
And I will build up your throne from generation to generation. In two generations, as we have said, the throne of God is set, namely in the circumcision and among the Gentiles.
Hippolytus of Rome
And around us are the wise men of the Greeks mocking and jeering us, as those who believe without inquiry, and foolishly.
Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On Psalm IXXXIX, 4 ↗
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