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What the Fathers say

Psalms 18:33

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Who hath made my feet perfect like harts' feet." Who hath made my love perfect to surmount the thorny and dark entanglements of this world. "And will set me up on high." And will fix my aim on the heavenly habitation, that "I may be filled with all the fulness of God."

Exposition on Psalm 18 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Who." Here agility is set forth, which is necessary for fighting. 1 Sam. 24 says that Saul went out against David over the most precipitous rocks, which are passable only by deer; as if to say: God conferred such agility upon me that I went like a deer over the mountains. "And upon the heights he has set me." On steep mountains human footsteps are not firmly planted, but God gave him such grace that he did not slip on them. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗