When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
10. "For my father and my mother have left me" (ver. 10). For the kingdom of this world and the city of this world, of which I was born in time and mortality, have left me seeking Thee, and despising what they promised, since they could not give what I seek. "But the Lord took me up." But the Lord, who can give me Himself, took me up.
For. Hebrew, "Though. "David's parents fled to him, 1 Kings xxii. 1. Yet they had made small account of him, till Samuel called him forth, 1 Kings xvi. 10. The father-in-law and mother-in-law may be also designated. When a saint is deprived of every human advantage, he may still say with St. Augustine, "They have taken from me what God gave, but they have not taken God from me, who gave those things. "(Berthier)
Though I am like an orphan, I hope for all good from God, my father, Isaias lxiii. 16. (Calmet)
