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Psalms 43

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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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Psalms 43:3

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Augustine of Hippo

But in order that she may do this, hear what she says, what she supplicates, what she prays for. Pray thou for what thou hearest; pray for it when thou hearest it; let these words be the voice of us all: "O send out Thy Light and Thy Truth. They have led me, and brought me on unto Thy holy hill, and into Thy Tabernacles." For that very "Light" and "Truth" are indeed two in name; the reality expressed is but One. For what else is the "Light" of God, except the "Truth" of God? …

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Thomas Aquinas

"Send forth." Here he sets forth advancement in good. And first he asks for the divine goods by which he is advanced; second, he asks for the advancement itself. He asks for two goods: light and truth. One arrives at God by steps of the mind and through knowledge. Heb. 4: "Entry is promised to those who believe." Two things are necessary for knowledge: namely, light and the object known. Eph. 5: "All that is made manifest is light." And so he asks for two things: namely, light and truth, to which I cannot attain by myself. …

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