Augustine of Hippo

Let each one also think this about his own life, that he may hate in it that private affection that is undoubtedly transitory and may love in it that union and sense of sharing of which it was said, "They had one soul and heart toward God." Thus, your soul is not your own but is shared by all the brothers whose souls are also yours, or, rather, whose souls form with yours not souls but one soul, the single soul of Christ, of which the psalm says that it is delivered from the hand of the dog. …

Letter 243 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Deliver." Here he explains specifically from what he asks to be defended. And first, against death. Second, against the temptation of death, at "From the hand of the dog." He says therefore, "Look to my defense," and "O God, deliver my soul," which they seek, "from the sword," that is, from the trembling, brandished sword. But against this: Christ was not killed by a sword but by a lance; and the lance also struck him after death. But it must be said that the sword by its sharpness divides: Heb. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗