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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Our God is a refuge and strength" [Psalm 46:1]. There are some refuges wherein is no strength, whereto when any flees, he is more weakened than strengthened. Thou fleest, for example, to some one greater in the world, that you may make yourself a powerful friend; this seems to you a refuge. Yet so great are this world's uncertainties, and so frequent grow the ruins of the powerful day by day, that when to such refuge you have come, you begin to fear more than ever therein....Our refuge is not such, but our refuge is strength. …
Thomas Aquinas
After the Psalmist sought divine help against the adversities he suffers from enemies, when he said "O God, with our ears," and then, as one already heard, showed the glory of the king, saying "My heart has poured forth"; here, having been heard on behalf of the people, he shows the benefit given to the people. And just as through the preceding Psalm the glory of Christ is designated, so in this Psalm the benefits shown to the faithful of Christ are designated. …
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