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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"The Lord is the strength of His people" [Psalm 28:8]. Not that people "ignorant of the righteousness of God, and willing to establish their own." [Romans 10:3] For they thought not themselves strong in themselves: for the Lord is the strength of His people, struggling in this life's difficulties with the devil. "And the protector of the salvation of His Christ." That, having saved them by His Christ after the strength of war, He may protect them at the last with the immortality of peace.
Thomas Aquinas
"The Lord." Here he gives thanks for the benefits to the people. And first he sets forth the benefits already shown. Second he asks that they be continued, at "Save your people." The same benefits that were done to him, when he says "the Lord is my helper," etc., he says were done to the people, when he says "the Lord is the strength" of the Jewish people delivered through me from the Philistines. And Christ is the strength of his people delivered through him from sin: Is. …
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