Fathers

Psalms 23

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Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

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Psalms 23:2

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

The pastures that this good shepherd has prepared for you, in which he has settled you for you to take your fill, are not various kinds of grasses and green things, among which some are sweet to the taste, some extremely bitter, which as the seasons succeed one another are sometimes there and sometimes not. Your pastures are the words of God and his commandments, and they have all been sown as sweet grasses. …

Sermon 366:3 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He designates all abundance metaphorically through the abundance of food and drink. For if He feeds us, He stands in relation to us as a shepherd to his sheep, which are nourished by two things, namely grass and water. With regard to the first he says, "in a place of pasture there He has placed me," that is, a place of grazing, where there is an abundance of grasses. This abundance consists in the sacred teachings of divine Scripture and in the abundance of spiritual things. Ezek. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗