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What the Fathers say

Psalms 36:6

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"Thy Righteousness is like the mountains of God: Thy Judgments are a great deep" (ver. 6). Who are the mountains of God? Those who are called clouds, the same are also the mountains of God. The great Preachers are the mountains of God. And as when the sun riseth, he first clothes the mountains with light, and thence the light descends to the lowest parts of the earth: so our Lord Jesus Christ, when He came, first irradiated the height of the Apostles, first enlightened the mountains, and so His Light descended to the valley of the …

Exposition on Psalm 36 ↗

Ambrose of Milan

You will save people and animals, O Lord; for you have multiplied your mercy, O God. What are people and animals? Some are rational, others irrational. Rational beings are subject to judgment, while irrational beings receive mercy. Some are ruled, others are nurtured.

Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Men." Above the Psalmist commended the justice, truth, and mercy of God, and his judgments, from which goods come to us; here he enumerates those goods: and concerning this he does two things. First he commemorates the goods that he commonly bestows upon every creature. Second, the proper goods that he confers upon the rational creature, at "But the children of men." Concerning the first he does two things. First he commemorates the things that commonly come from God. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗