Psalm 138:3

“6. …Such children ought therefore to be “around” the Lord’s “table, like olive-branches.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxviii. 3.

““In what day soever I call upon Thee, do Thou quickly hear me” (ver. 3).” — the author cites it

“…be ye multiplied,” be understood to be by advance of mind, and abundance of virtue, as it is set in the Psalm, “Thou shall multiply me in my soul by virtue;” and that succession of progeny was not given unto man, save after that, by reason of sin, there was to be hereafter departure in death: or whether the body was…” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxviii. 3. LXX.

“…multiply,” refers not to carnal fecundity, because a similar expression is used of the soul in the words, “Thou wilt multiply me with strength in my soul;” and so, too, in the words which follow in Genesis, “And replenish the earth, and subdue it,” they understand by the earth the body which the soul fills with…” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxviii. 3.

Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 2.

Cited together in The City of God XIV.21 and 1 other place.

Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 2.