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What the Fathers say

Psalms 89:36

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"His seed shall endure for ever" [Psalm 89:36]. His seed endures for ever; because the Lord knows them that are His.

Exposition on Psalm 89 ↗

Bonaventure

The spiritual throne is indicated: that of doctrine, of superiorship, or of judgment. Hence the Psalm: "And his throne shall be like the sun before me; like the moon which remains forever." A superior is the sun as regards the documents of truth, the moon as regards the example of virtue; or he is the sun of wisdom and the moon of knowledge; or again, he is the sun in the act of judgment and the moon in that of mercy.

Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 13 ↗