“"He has founded it above the seas." He has most firmly established it above all the waves of this world, that they should be subdued by it, and should not hurt it. "And has prepared it above the rivers" [Psalm 24:2]. The rivers flow into the sea, and men of lust lapse into the world: these also the Church, which, when…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 24
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2For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
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1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
— Psalms 24:2 —
3Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.