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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
We will give him other sights in exchange for such sights as these. And what sights shall we present to the Christian, whom we would fain divert from those sights? I thank the Lord our God; He in the following verse of the Psalm hath shown us what sights we ought to present and offer to spectators who would fain have sights to see? …
Gregory the Dialogist
Hence through the Psalmist the Lord says: "I have declared and spoken, they have multiplied beyond number." For when the Lord calls, the faithful are multiplied beyond number, because sometimes even those come to faith who do not attain to the number of the elect. For here they are mingled with the faithful through confession, but because of their reprobate life they do not deserve to be numbered there in the lot of the faithful.
Thomas Aquinas
"You have done many things." Above, the Psalmist, on behalf of Christ or the Church, set forth his confidence and its effects, namely the manifold benefits of God; here, however, he shows the cause of this confidence: namely the source from which he was moved to confess and the hope arising from merits. And so the cause of confidence is the many temporal goods, which are also certain recompenses that a person renders to God for benefits: Ps. 115: "What shall I render to the Lord?" etc. …
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