Psalms 86 · The Lantern

The title of the sixte and eiytetithe salm. `The salm of the song of the sones of Chore. The foundementis therof ben in hooli hillis;

the Lord loueth the yatis of Sion, more than alle the tabernaclis of Jacob.

Therefore, the Word is our educator who heals the unnatural passions of our soul with his counsel. The art of healing, strictly speaking, is the relief of the ills of the body, an art learned through human wisdom. Yet, the only true divine healer of human sickness, the holy comforter of the soul when it is ill, is the Word of the Father.

"Preserve My Soul, for I am holy" [Psalm 86:2]. I know not whether any one could say this, "I am holy," but He who was in the world without sin: He by whom all sins were not committed but remitted. We own it to be His voice saying, "Preserve My Soul, for I am holy;" of course in that form of a servant which He had assumed. For in that was flesh, in that, was also a Soul.

He adds, "His name is holy and to be feared." "Holy" pertains to the incarnation, as he himself says, "Guard my soul because I am holy." "To be feared" pertains to the omnipotence of his divine nature on high, just as is said in another psalm, "You are to be feared, and who can oppose you?" These two phrases pertain to this purpose so that we may call upon him as our advocate a…

Thou citee of God, with outen ende; gloriouse thingis ben seide of thee.

I schal be myndeful of Raab, and Babiloyne; knowynge me. Lo! aliens, and Tyre, and the puple of Ethiopiens; thei weren there.

Whether a man schal seie to Sion, And a man is born ther ynne; and that man altherhiyeste foundide it?

The Lord schal telle in the scripturis of puplis; and of these princis, that weren ther ynne.

As the dwellyng `of alle that ben glad; is in thee.

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