As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Youth. Hebrew, also "autumn or winter "which are seasons of repose, when people enjoy the fruits of their labours.
Tabernacle, and all consulted me as an oracle. (Calmet) -- Septuagint, "when God made the visit of my house "(Haydock) and filled it with blessings, like that of Obededom, 2 Kings vi. 12.
19. As of each individual man, so is the age of Holy Church described. For she was a little one, when fresh from the birth she was unable to preach the Word of Life. Hence it is said of her, My sister is a little one, and she hath no breasts; [Cant. 8, 8] in this way, that Holy Church, before she made progress by accessions of virtue, was not able to yield the teats of preaching to the weak ones her hearers. But the Church is called ‘adult’ when being wedded to the Word of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, by the office of preaching she is with young in the conception of children, with whom by exhorting she travails, whom by converting she brings forth. Of this age of hers it is said to the Lord; The young maidens have loved Thee. [Cant. 1, 3] For all the Churches, which constitute one Catholic Church, are called young maidens, not now aged by sin, but young ones by grace, not barren by old age, but by the age of the soul fitted for spiritual fruitfulness. Accordingly then, when...
