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Psalms 8:1

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
3. "Wine-presses" are also usually taken for martyrdoms, as if when they who have confessed the name of Christ have been trodden down by the blows of persecution, their mortal remains as husks remained on earth, but their souls flowed forth into the rest of a heavenly habitation. Nor yet by this interpretation do we depart from the fruitfulness of the Churches. It is sung then, "for the wine-presses," for the Church's establishment; when our Lord after His resurrection ascended into heaven. For then He sent the Holy Ghost: by whom the disciples being fulfilled preached with confidence the Word of God, that Churches might be collected.
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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