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Psalms 47:1

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"O clap your hands, all ye nations." Were the people of the Jews all the nations? No, but blindness in part is happened to Israel, that senseless children might cry, "Calve," "Calve;" and so the Lord might be crucified in the place of Calvary, that by His Blood shed He might redeem the Gentiles, and that might be fulfilled which saith the Apostle, "Blindness in part is happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." Let them insult, then, the vain, and foolish, and senseless, and say, "Calve," "Calve;" but ye …

ON THE PSALMS - Psalm 47 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

In the preceding Psalms the Psalmist expounded the glory of the King and of the kingdom; here he exhorts the foreign nations to be converted to God. And first he exhorts them to the praise of God. Second, to hope in God. Third, he teaches them the worship of God. The second begins at "hear these things." The third, at "the God of gods." The title is clear, because it has been explained above: "unto the end, for the sons of Korah, a Psalm of David." Concerning the first he does two things. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗