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Psalm 89:20 (WEB)
I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith II.5Book II
“The Father Himself also declares by the prophet, concerning Christ, that “I have set help upon one that is mighty.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxix. 20.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith III.4Book III
“But how can the Son say here that He was without help, when it has already been said: “I have laid help upon One that is mighty”?” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxix. 20. See ch. ii. p. 243.
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith V.9Book V
“Not only does He undergo service in the character of man by reason of His descent from David, but also by reason of His name, as it is written: “I have found David My Servant;” and elsewhere: “Behold I will send unto you My Servant, the Orient is His name.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxix. 20.
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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy II.7Book II
“And why should I say more about him of whom the word of the Lord has gone forth to say: “I have found David according to My heart”?” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxix [lxxxviii.] 20.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 89
““I have found David My servant:” that David from David’s seed: “with My holy oil have I anointed Him” (ver. 20): for it is said of Him, “God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.”” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVII.9Book XVII
“His seed also will I set for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxix. 19–29.
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Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms Homily 1
“And I will make him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth; while in what we might call the majority of Psalms the Person of the Son is introduced, as in the seventeenth: A people whom I have not known hath served Me; and in the twenty-first: they parted My garments among them and cast lots upon My vesture.” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. (lxxxix.) 20 ff.
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Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity Book 12
“…all the host of heaven; or again, The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous; or again, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart.” — editor's note: Acts xiii. 22; cf. Ps. lxxxix. 20.
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John Cassian, The Institutes XII.14Book XII
“…that which is sung in the person of God in the eighty-eighth Psalm: “I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.”” — editor's note: Ps. lxxxviii. (lxxxix.) 20.
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