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Psalms 31:7

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"I will be glad, and rejoice in Your mercy:" which does not deceive me. "For You have regarded My humiliation:" wherein You have subjected me to vanity in hope. [Romans 8:20] "You have saved my soul from necessities" [Psalm 31:7]. You have saved my soul from the necessities of fear, that with a free love it may serve You.

Exposition on Psalm 31 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Because." Here he commemorates the benefit of liberation. First, the liberation; second, the manner of liberation, at "You have not shut me up." He says he was freed from two things: from rejection and from tribulation. The first is opposed to honor; the second to prosperity. As to the first he says "humility," that is, rejection; as if to say, although you are exalted in heaven, yet "you have looked upon" this lowly one here, or "the humility of my heart." Lk. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗