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garment, as their corruptible body changes into incorruption, and their mortal body into immortality. Thus, then, according to the example, the rams also put on the garment from home, as their body bears the fleece as fruit. But they will also put on our Lord Jesus Christ himself, putting on the excellent garment, the light of his divinity. Moreover, 'the valleys' then 'will abound with grain.' For it was necessary not to forget the valleys; for above, the plains were named and the mountains of the desert and the hills. But since there are also, besides the aforementioned orders, certain others more humble, and not indeed cast out of the kingdom, yet, as in comparison with those aforementioned, small and short, and as one might say, the last of all; of necessity the word did not pass over the memory of these either; but it teaches that they too will bear their fitting fruit, saying: 'And the valleys will abound with grain,' producing, or, 'their food,' according to Symmachus. 'They will cry out.' And what they will cry out, it explains next, saying: 'For they will sing praises;' as if it had said more clearly: For if they are valleys, yet they will sing praises to him who is the provider of good things for them also. And singing praises they will cry out, using boldness and a great shout. And crying out with a shout and singing praises, what voices will they send forth, other than those brought forth at the beginning of every psalm: 'To you a hymn is due, O God, in Zion,' they say? And necessarily the phrase 'They will cry out, and for they will sing praises' is set forth, concerning the valleys, or also concerning all those mentioned before, so that we may learn that the word does not teach these things about perceptible and bodily places; although it was also likely concerning these things to think that the aforementioned things were said about the perceptible gifts of God, so that there would be a hymn of thanksgiving, as far as the letter is concerned, for the things provided annually to men in the present discourse. At least, in each year the philanthropist and giver of every good, God, visiting the earth, makes it drunk, watering it with the customary rains, and fills its furrows with the provisions of the rains. And multiplying its produce, he will bless it. And it rejoices, and being made new, it sprouts. And then, being filled with all kinds of fruits, both sown and from trees, it is crowned, so that one would not hesitate to say it is crowned in the season of spring, and that the plains are filled with fatness; and moreover that the mountains of the desert blossom, and the hills are girded with exultation; but also that the rams of the sheep are clothed with their own fleeces, and that the very valleys of the lands are often filled with grain, and all but cry out in deed and glorify God. But even if these things are fulfilled most perceptibly each year, yet the context of the entire discourse has been shown to send us up to the spiritual interpretation. Together, then, all the aforementioned things, I mean 23.648 the plains and the mountains of the desert, and the hills and the rams of the sheep, and in addition to these the valleys which have been rendered according to the interpretation given, and according to the obvious meaning, are said to send forth one voice and a harmonious melody to God. Therefore concerning all of them you shall hear this: 'They will cry out and sing praises.' TO THE END, A SONG OF A PSALM. 65. 'Shout to God, all the earth, sing a psalm to his name, give glory to his praise.' The present psalm is also evangelical, containing the calling of the nations. And it was not destined to reach its end in the times in which it was sung, but at the consummation of the ages. Therefore it sends up the prophecy of the things signified to the end. And it is a song of a psalm in reverse; or according to the one before it, as it was inscribed, 'A Psalm of a Song.' For the Holy Spirit sang and played the psaltery with much joy through the one who received it

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