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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Hesychius of Jerusalem
Do you see the equal worth of the Son with the Father? Sometimes the Son is said to stand or to sit on the right; now they grant the right to the Father, so that you may say that there is one power, that of the Father (the begetter) and that of the begotten (the Son), even if now he is humbled on account of the flesh.
Large COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 16:7
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"I foresaw the Lord in My sight always" [Psalm 16:8]. But coming into things that pass away, I removed not My eye from Him who abides ever, foreseeing this, that to Him I should return after passing through the things temporal. "For He is on My right hand, that I should not be moved." For He favours Me, that I should abide fixedly in Him.
Jerome
I foresaw the Lord in my sight always: for he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved. In place of what we read in Latin, "I foresaw," and what in Greek is written "proōrōmēn," it stands better in the Hebrew SEBETHI, which we may render "I set before myself." So that it means: I set the Lord before me always at my right hand, and I could be overthrown by no fraud of my enemies. And at the same time consider that it is in our power to set the Lord before our eyes. …
Thomas Aquinas
And because the flesh feared the passion, I, in that passion, "set the Lord before me," with eyes raised to heaven, not to the world. Providence is the foreseeing of things to happen in the future; but vision or sight is of things present. But if such loins still assail, one should not fear, because one has the help of God ready. And therefore first he sets forth the remembrance of the help, saying, "I set the Lord before me," etc., namely when "my reins rebuked me." Ps. 24: "My eyes are always toward the Lord, because," etc. …
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