Psalm 68:16 (WEB)
Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“…we found rest in Thee, with the perpetual freshness of Thy Paradise, in that Thou hast forgiven him his earthly sins, in that mountain flowing with milk, that fruitful mountain,—Thine own.” — editor's note: Literally, In monte incaseato, “the mountain of curds,” from the Old Ver. of Ps. lxviii. 16. The Vulgate renders coagulatus. But the Authorized Version is…
Read the whole comment“…Prophets; He turneth to them and saith, “Why do ye imagine mountains full of curds, a mountain,” he saith, “wherein it hath pleased God to dwell therein”? (ver. 16).” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“Those mountains, then, are fallen, and it is revealed that in Christ was the substance of God, in the words of those who had seen Him: “Truly Thou art the Son of God,” for it was in virtue of divine, not human power, that He commanded devils.” — editor's note: i.e. those cities and nations and persons who have exalted themselves, lifted themselves up as high mountains, challenging, as it were, the majesty of heaven.…
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.3.