Psalm 147:13 (WEB)
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
Fathers and councils · 4
“But there, when we shall reach thereunto, is complete security, when the gates are shut, and the bars of the gates of Jerusalem made fast; there is truly full jubilance, and great delight.” — editor's note: Ps. cxlvii. 13.
Read the whole comment“…love thinketh that in that city to which it is said, “Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, praise thy God, O Sion; for He hath made strong the bars of thy gates;” when the bars are now strengthened and the city closed, whence, as we said some time since, no friend goeth out, no enemy entereth; that there we shall have a…” — editor's note: Ps. cxlvii. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“He saith, “He hath made strong the bars of thy gates” (ver. 13).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion: for He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee; who hath made thy borders peace.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlvii. 12–14.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The City of God XIX.11.