“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
I was glad when they said to me, 'Let us go to the house of the LORD!' The gladness ('I was glad') at the prospect of pilgrimage ('go to the house of the LORD') establishes the psalm's emotional tone. This verse indicates joy at collective worship.
Church Fathers on Psalms 122:1
1. As impure love inflames the mind, and summons the soul destined to perish to lust for earthly things, and to follow what is perishable, and precipitates it into lowest places, and sinks it into the abyss; so holy love raises us to heavenly things, and inflames us to what is eternal, and excites the soul to those things which do not pass away nor die, and from the abyss of hell raises it to heaven. Yet all love has a power of its own, nor can love in the soul of the lover…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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