ARGUMENT

ARG. THOMAS. That CHRIST hallows us, anointed with ointment flowing from the head of the Apostle. The Voice of the Church counselling that they who are by the grace of the LORD, brethren of JESUS, the FATHER’S SON, may unite in one Catholic faith, receiving the dew of eternal blessing. The fourteenth step contains the Decalogue of the Old Testament, and the Sacraments of the Four Gospels of the New. The Voice of the Church that Catholics should agree in one. At the coming-together of brethren.

VEN. BEDE. After that most holy preaching of the preceding Psalm, the Prophet, set in the fourteenth step, preaches to the people the blessing of unity, that they who bind themselves with the Christian religion, may persevere in one fellowship of charity. This Psalm, like the hundred and sixteenth (117) admits of no division; and that rightly, because that one exhorts all nations and people to the praises of GOD, and this one to the unity of brotherly love. Behold, how good and joyful, &c.

SYRIAC PSALTER. Of David. One of the Songs of Degrees. It is uttered of Moses and Aaron living in a tent in the house of the LORD. And he refers in it to the perfect people.

EUSEBIUS OF CÆSAREA. Concerning the perfect people.

S. ATHANASIUS. A Psalm describing a life endowed with holy virtue.