But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
3. "To the saints who are on His earth" (ver. 3): to the saints who have placed their hope in the land of the living, the citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, whose spiritual conversation is, by the anchor of hope, fixed in that country, which is rightly called God's earth; although as yet in this earth too they be conversant in the flesh. "He hath wonderfully fulfilled all My wishes in them." To those saints then He hath wonderfully fulfilled all My wishes in their advancement, whereby they have perceived, how both the humanity of My divinity hath profited them that I might die, and the divinity of the humanity that I might rise again.
Saints. Hebrew, "the magnificent "priests, God himself, (Exodus xv. 11.; Calmet) and ceremonies of religion, (Haydock) for which David had a wonderful affection. (Calmet)
But Christ has displayed the greatest love towards all his converts, and they had need of it. (Berthier)
God here speaks, shewing that Christ should make known his wonderful charity to the apostles and other saints.
