LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
8. "O Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thy house:" of Thy Church. "And the place of the habitation of Thy glory" (ver. 8): where Thou dwellest, and art glorified.
Beauty. The ark, 1 Kings iv. 22. Symmachus, "the palace. "(Calmet)
Hebrew, "the dwelling. "The psalmist desires to imitate those fervent Levites, who chose always to attend the tabernacle, Deuteronomy xviii. 6. (Calmet)
Mehon, when applied to the "dwelling "of God, may be properly rendered a temple, heaven, Deuteronomy xxvi. 15. (Berthier)
No one who reflects on the blessings dispensed in God's house, can fail to be struck with admiration. (Worthington)
