“For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.”
For the sake of my relatives and friends, I will say, 'Peace be within you.' The personal relationships ('relatives and friends') motivate the peace-blessing. This verse extends the prayer to those connected by kinship and friendship.
Church Fathers on Psalms 122:8
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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