Beautiful for elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
3. Further, ...when he had said, "in the city of our God, in His holy mountain," what added he? "Spreading abroad the joys of the whole earth, the mountains of Sion" (ver. 2). Sion is one mountain, why then "mountains"? Is it that to Sion belonged also those which came from the other side, so as to meet together on the Corner Stone, and become two walls, as it were two mountains, one of the circumcision, the other of the uncircumcision; one of the Jews, the other of the Gentiles: no longer adverse, although diverse, because from different sides, now in the corner not even diverse. "For He is our peace, who hath made both one." The same Corner Stone "which the builders rejected, is become the Head Stone of the corner." The mountain hath joined in itself two mountains; one house there is, and two houses; two, because coming from different sides; one, because of the Corner Stone, wherein both are joined together. Hear also this, "the mountains of Sion: the sides of the North are the city ...
With. Hebrew, "the beautiful situation, the joy of the whole earth, (Menochius) Sion, sides of "Chaldean, "Sion, thou art beautiful as a bride. "Christ's Church is thus described, Apocalypse xxi. 2. (Calmet)
Its figure, (Haydock) the temple, was the glory of the whole country, Psalm xxv. 8., and Lamentations ii. 15. (Calmet)
But the Church alone extends to the sides of the north, or over the world. (Worthington)
