Mark you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
14. Tell what? "For this is God, even our God" (ver. 13). The earth was seen, the earth's Creator was not seen; the flesh was held, God in the flesh was not acknowledged. For the flesh was held by those from whom had been taken the same flesh, for of the seed of Abraham was the Virgin Mary. At the flesh they stayed, the Divinity they did not understand. O Apostles, O mighty city, preach thou on the towers, and say, "This is God, even our God." So, even so as He was despised, as He lay a stone before the feet of the stumbling, that He might humble the hearts of the confessing; even so, "This is God, even our God." Certainly He was seen, as was said, "Afterward did He show Himself upon earth, and conversed with men." "This is God, even our God." He is also Man, and who is there will know Him? "This is God, even our God." But haply for a time as the false gods. For because they can be called gods, but cannot be so, for a time they are even called so. For what saith the Prophet, or what wa...
Strength. Perhaps the outward wall, (Ezechiel xl. 5.) not seen in Solomon's temple.
Houses. Hebrew, "palaces. "Septuagint, "houses built like towers "Bareis. Jerusalem was not rebuilt or fortified, when the second temple was dedicated, 2 Esdras i. 3. (Calmet)
The fortresses of the Church are the holy Fathers and Doctors, who watch in her defence. Her pillars shall not fail. The particular Churches are all united in the same faith, and these reflections ought to prevail on all to embrace the same. (Worthington)
