Day 3 of 15
Psalms 122
The pilgrim rejoices at the call to go up to the house of the LORD, standing within Jerusalem's gates where the tribes ascend and David's thrones stand, and prays for her peace.
A Song of Ascents of David, a pilgrim's joyful arrival at Jerusalem, the city of worship and justice.
“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…”
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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