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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
God will not have us listen to the words and sentences contained in the Scriptures carelessly, but with much attention. This is why the blessed David hath prefixed in many places to his Psalms the title "for understanding," and hath said, "Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy Law." And after him his son again shows that we ought to "seek out wisdom as silver, and to make merchandise of her rather than of gold." And the Lord when He exhorts the Jews to "search the Scriptures," the more urges us to the …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Open Thou mine eyes, and I will consider wondrous things of Thy law" (ver. 18). What he addeth, "I am a lodger upon earth" (ver. 19): or, as some copies read, "I am a sojourner upon earth, O hide not Thy commandments from me," hath the same meaning. ...Here an important question ariseth respecting the soul. For the words, I am a sojourner, or lodger, or stranger upon earth, cannot seem to have been said in reference to the body, since the body derives its origin from the earth. …
Jerome
Hear me, therefore, my fellow servant, my friend, my brother; give ear for a moment that I may tell you how you are to walk in the holy Scriptures. All that we read in the divine books, while glistening and shining without, is yet far sweeter within. …
Bonaventure
In these twelve mysteries is the whole of Scripture. In each of these there are twelve lights of scriptural interpretation, that is, the allegorical, the anagogical, and the tropological. And twelve times twelve are one hundred and forty-four, and this corresponds to the number of those marked with the sign, and to that of the City. Hence in the Psalm: "Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law."
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