“He has sent down from on high, and has fetched Me [Psalm 18:16]: by calling out of the Gentiles for an inheritance "a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle." [Ephesians 5:27] "He has taken Me out of the multitude of waters." He has taken Me out of the multitude of peoples.”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 18
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16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
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14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
— Psalms 18:16 —
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.