Day 14 of 15

Psalms 133

Before You Read

How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity, like precious oil running down Aaron's beard and like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion.

A Song of Ascents of David, a brief wisdom psalm on the beauty of unity among God's gathered people.

Read Psalms 133
With the Fathers

1. This is a short Psalm, but one well known and quoted. “Behold, how good and how pleasant is it, that brethren should dwell together in unity” Psalm 132:1. So sweet is that sound, that even they who know not the Psalter, sing that verse. ... 2. For these same words of the Psalter, this sweet sound, that honeyed melody, as well of the mind as of the hymn, did even beget the Monasteries. By this sound were stirred…

Augustine, Exposition on Psalm 133

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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