O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
31. "O Lord, how great are made Thy works!" (ver. 24). Justly great, justly sublime! where were those works made, that are so great? what was that station where God stood, or that seat whereupon He sat, when He did those works? 0what was the place where He worked thus? whence did those so beautiful works proceed at the first? To take it word for word, every ordained creation, running by ordinance, beautiful by ordinance, rising by ordinance, setting by ordinance, going through all seasons by ordinance, whence hath it proceeded? whence hath the Church herself received her rise, her growth, her perfection? In what manner is she destined to a consummation in immortality? with what heralding is she preached? by what mysteries is she recommended? by what types is she concealed? by what preaching is she revealed? where hath God done these things? I see great works. "How great are made Thy works, O Lord!" I ask where He hath made them: I find not the place: but I see what followeth: "In Wisdo...
Riches. Literally, "possession. "(Haydock)
Hebrew, "The fulness of the earth is thy possession. "Septuagint and ancient psalters, "creature "ktiseos. The other interpreters read kteseos, (Calmet) which the Vulgate adopts. (Haydock)
The world derided Jesus Christ, the wisdom of God, and Creator of all. (St. Augustine)
