“For you have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. I myself, who then spoke in the Old Testament through the patriarchs and through the prophets, now myself speak through my own self; for I have not come to loose the commandments of mercy which the law had built up, but to build upon them. As he himself says in the G…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 66, on Psalm 88 (Alternate Series)
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2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
— Psalms 89:2 —
3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.