“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.”
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: 'May those who love you prosper!' The petition for Jerusalem's 'peace' is coupled with blessing for its 'lovers.' This verse calls for intercession for the city's well-being.
Church Fathers on Psalms 122:6
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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