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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 42:1

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 42:1 (WEB)

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Fathers and councils · 6

Augustine of Hippo

  • “…are before, and groaneth being burdened; and his soul thirsteth after the living God, as the hart after the water-brooks, and saith, “When shall I come?” “desiring to be clothed upon with his house which is from heaven;” and calleth upon this lower deep, saying, “Be not conformed to this world, but be ye…” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 1, 2.

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  • “For the Psalm itself begins with a certain pious “longing;” and he who sings so, says, “Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after Thee, O God” (ver. 1).” — the author cites it

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Athanasius of Alexandria

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Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “…goodness, though you ought to reap the opposite fruit from the opposite course, a harvest by diligence, and refreshment from the font, like the thirsty hart that runs in haste to the spring, and quenches the labour of his race by water; and not to be in Ishmael’s case, dried up for want of water, or as the fable…” — editor's note: Ps. xlii. 1.

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