Day 9 of 15

Psalms 128

Before You Read

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD and walks in his ways: fruitful labor, a flourishing wife and children around the table, and the sight of Jerusalem's prosperity all one's days.

A Song of Ascents, a wisdom blessing on the household of the one who fears the LORD.

Read Psalms 128
With the Fathers

1. Felix the Martyr, truly Felix, i.e. “Happy” both in his name and his crown, whose birthday this is, despised the world. Was he, because he feared the Lord, thence happy, thence blessed, because his wife was as a fruitful vine upon the earth, and his children stood around his table? All these blessings he has perfectly, but in the Body of Him who is here described; and, because he understood them in this sense, he…

Augustine, Exposition on Psalm 128

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

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