Psalms 85:6 (NKJV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Psalms 85:6

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Augustine of Hippo

"O God, You shall turn us again, and make us alive" [Psalm 85:6]. Not as if we ourselves of our own accord, without Your mercy, turn unto You, and then You shall make us alive: but so that not only our being made alive is from You, but our very conversion, that we may be made alive. "And Your people shall rejoice in You." To their own evil they shall rejoice in themselves: to their own good they shall rejoice in You. …

Exposition on Psalm 85 ↗

Jerome

O God, You, turning again, will bring us to life. As long, therefore, as the Lord does not turn to us, we are dead.

Homily 17, on Psalm 84 ↗

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