He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
2. "In a place of pasture there hath He placed me" (ver. 2). In a place of fresh pasture, leading me to faith, there hath He placed me to be nourished. "By the water of refreshing hath He brought me up." By the water of baptism, whereby they are refreshed who have lost health and strength, hath He brought me up.
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)
