“"From the rising of the sun and from its setting, from the north and the sea." He seems indeed to have named four climes: the east, the west, the south, and the north — that is, the four climes of the world. But the psalm does not contain it so. For here it has: "from the rising of the sun and from its setting" — beho…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 33, on Psalm 106
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3And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
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1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
— Psalms 107:3 —
4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.