The church in persecution trusteth in the protection of God.
“My heart hath uttered a good word I speak my works to the king; My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.” (Psalms 44:2)
“This Psalm, even as we ourselves have been singing with gladness together with you, we would beg you in like manner to consider with attention together with us. For it is sung of the sacred Marriage-feast; of the Bridegroom and the Bride; of the King and His people; of the Saviour and those who are to be saved. …His sons are we, in that we are the ‘children of the Bridegroom;’ and it is to us that this Psalm is addressed.” – St. Augustine
“Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which.” (Psalms 44:9)
Sweetness comes forth from God’s saints and the enemies of Christ envy it.
“‘Out of Thy garments is the smell of myrrh, amber, and cassia’ (ver. 8). Out of Thy garments is perceived the smell of fragrant odours. By His garments are meant His Saints, His elect, His whole Church, which he shows forth, as His garment, so to speak; His robe ‘without spot and wrinkle,’ which on account of its spots He has ‘washed’ in His blood; on account of its ‘wrinkles’ extended on His Cross. Hence the sweet savour which is signified by certain perfumes there mentioned. Hear Paul, that ‘least of the Apostles’ (that ‘hem of that garment,’ which the woman with the issue of blood touched, and was healed), hear him saying: ‘We are a sweet savour of Christ, in every place, both in them that are saved, and in them that perish.’ …They who loved him were saved by the odour of ‘sweet savour;’ they who envied him, perished by means of that ‘sweet savour.’ To them that perished then he was not a foul ‘savour,’ but a ‘sweet savour.’ For it was for this very reason they the more envied him, the more excellent that grace was which reigned in him: for no man envies him who is unhappy. He then was glorious in the preaching of God’s Word, and in regulating his life according to the rule of that ‘rod of direction;’ and he was loved by those who loved Christ in him, who followed after and pursued the odour of sweet savour; who loved the friend of the bridegroom: that is to say, by the Bride Herself, who says in the Song of Songs, ‘We will run after the sweet savour of thy perfumes.’ But the others, the more they beheld him invested with the glory of the preaching of the Gospel, and of an irreproachable life, were so much the more tortured with envy, and found that sweet savour prove death to them.” – St. Augustine
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