When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
5. And he saith what? "When I shall have received," he saith, "the time, I will judge justices" (ver. 2). When shall He judge justices? When He shall have received the time. Not yet is the precise time. Thanks to His mercy: He first preacheth justices, and then He judgeth justices. For if He willed to judge before He willed to preach, who would be found that should be delivered: who would meet Him that should be absolved? Now therefore is the time of preaching: "I will tell," he saith, "all Thy marvellous works." Hear Him telling, hear Him preaching : for if thou shalt have despised Him, "when I shall have received the time," He saith, "I will judge justices." I forgive, He saith, now sins to one confessing, I will not spare hereafter one despising. ...He hath received a time as Son of Man; He doth govern times as Son of God. Hear how as Son of Man He hath received the time of judging. He saith in the Gospel, "He hath given to Him power to execute judgment, because Son of Man He is." A...
When I shall take a time. In proper times: particularly at the last day, when the earth shall melt away at the presence of the great judge: the same who originally laid the foundations of it, and, as it were, established its pillars. (Challoner) (Worthington)
This is God's answer to the longer prayer of Asaph, in the preceding psalm, which is here concluded. (Calmet)
A time. Hebrew Mohed, "congregation. "(Symmachus)
When I shall have delivered my people. (Theodoret)
Justices. With the utmost rigour I will punish Babylon. (Calmet)
No mere creature knows the time of the general judgment, as Christ, the sovereign judge, does. (Worthington)
Then the just themselves will tremble. (Haydock)
