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St Augustine's Sermon on Psalm XXXIII: I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Extract

So much for the psalm's title. Now let us listen to the actual words of him who is affecting and drumming at the city gate. ‘I shall bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth.’ Christ says it, let the Christian say it too, because the Christian is part of Christ's body. When will you bless the Lord? When he makes things easy for you? When you enjoy worldly wealth, and plenty of corn, oil, wine, gold, silver, slaves, cattle, and the best of health besides; when your crops and herds flourish, and nothing dies or dwindles out of time, when your house is filled to overflowing with prosperity, is that when you are going to bless the Lord? No, no, but at all times.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1957 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 I Cor. i, 22.

2 JOb i, 2I

3 Matt, xxi, 9.

4 Psalm xxxi, 9.

5 John i, 3.

6 John x, IS.

7 Matt. vi, 6.

8 Matt. v, 8.

9 I Cor xv, 54.

10 Isaias lviii, 9.

11 John xvi, 22

12 John i, 9.

13 Isaias ix, 6.

14 John vi, 53.