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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"For God is the King of all the earth" [Psalm 47:7]. What? And before was He not God of all the earth? Is He not God of both heaven and earth, since by Him surely were all things made? Who can say that He is not his God? But not all men acknowledged Him their God; and where He was acknowledged, there only, so to say, He was God. …
Thomas Aquinas
And he shows that praise is fitting, because He is "God, king of all the earth." And therefore you inhabitants of the earth should sing praises to Him. And he says "of all the earth" -- not of Judea only, or of Greece, but of the whole world. "But sing praises wisely," that is, with discernment. And sing praises not only with the mouth, but with a heart renewed interiorly; because "praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner," as is said in Sir. 15. Likewise, not with a troubled mind. Jas. …
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