“I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people. What are the prayers of the martyrs? What are the prayers of the saints? "I will hold you," he says, "and I will not let you go." I will adore, he says, the Lord, whom, reading in the Gospel, I found crucified, and in the heavens I see reigning with the an…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 40, on Psalm 115
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18I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
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16O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
— Psalms 116:18 —
19In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.