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...Let them "lift up their eyes to the hills whence cometh their help" (ver. 1). What meaneth, The hills have been lightened? The San of righteousness hath already risen, the Gospel hath been already preached by the Apostles, the Scriptures have been preached, all the mysteries have been laid open, the veil hath been rent, the secret place of the temple hath been revealed: let them now at length lift their eyes up to the hills, whence their help cometh..."Of His fulness have all we received," 1 he saith. Thy help therefore is from Him, of whose fulness the hills received, not from the hills; 2 towards which, 3 nevertheless, save thou lift thine eyes through the Scriptures, thou wilt not approach, so as to be lighted by Him. 4
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John i. 16. ↩
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Here some earlier editions, as quoted by Ben., add, "Christ, the Son of the supreme Father, is therefore our salvation, and our help, and with the same Father He is God Almighty, and with Him ever abiding in respect of that He is. To those mountains, therefore, which I have mentioned, if thou lift not up thine eyes." There are several other additions in the commentary on his Psalm, which however seem scarcely worthy of St. Augustin, and for which no ms. authority is given. ↩
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Al. "by which thou wilt not be admonished." ↩
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[Familiarity with Scripture is the Catholic principle, here everywhere presupposed.--C.] ↩
