Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
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" (ver. 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 up the brethren who longed to dwell together. This verse was their trumpet. It sounded through the whole earth, and they who had been divided, were gathered together. The summons of God, the summons of the Holy Spirit, the summons of the Prophets, were not heard in Judah, yet were heard through the whole world. They were deaf to that sound, amid whom it was sung; they were found with their ears open, of whom it was said, "They shall see him, who were not told of him; they shall understand who heard not." Yet, most beloved, if we reflect, the very blessing hath sprung from tha...
"Of David "as we read in Hebrew and the Alexandrian Septuagint, being composed by him, when all Israel acknowledged his dominion, (Berthier) after his third anointing. (Houbigant)
Others explain it of the captives returned, and particularly of the sacred ministers resolving to perform their duties with unanimity. (Calmet)
Esdras might propose the example "of David "for the imitation of others. (Worthington)
