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Psalms 92:4

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
6. "For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy works; and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of Thy hands" (ver. 4). Ye see what he saith. Thou hast made me living well, Thou hast formed me: if by chance I do aught of good, I will rejoice in the work of Thy hands: as the Apostle saith, "For we are His workmanship, created unto good works." For unless He formed thee to good works, thou wouldest not know any works but evil. ...Because thou canst not have truth from thy own self, it remains that thou drink it thence, whence it floweth: as if thou hast gone back from the light, thou art in darkness: as a stone glows not with its own heat, but either from the sun or fire, and if thou withdraw it from the heat, it cools: there it appears, that the heat was not its own; for it became heated either by the sun or by fire: thus thou also, if thou withdraw from God, wilt become cold; if thou approach God, thou wilt warm: as the Apostle saith "fervent in spirit." Also what saith...

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Rejoice. Admiring thy providence, (Calmet) or the Messias. "What are all things compared with thee, O Lord! "(St. Augustine; Conf. x. 4.)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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