He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
All Commentaries on Psalms 23:2 Go To Psalms 23
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Place. Mont., in the huts of grass, (or of young trees, germinis) he will make me lie down. "See Canticle of Canticles i. 6., and Ezechiel xxxiv. 15. (Haydock)
Shepherds were accustomed to conduct their flocks to shady places, during the heat of the day.
Refreshment. Hebrew, "still waters "like the pond of Siloe, (Isaias viii. 6.) in opposition to the great streams of the Euphrates The fathers understand it of baptism; (St. Chrysostom) or of the truths of salvation. (Eusebius) (Calmet)
Baptism is the first justification. (Worthington)
