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PSALMS 122:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Ps 122:4Ps 122:6
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
For there the thrones for judgment are set, the thrones of the house of David.

Church Fathers on Psalms 122:5

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…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 122 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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