Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Chapter 6: Psalms 102–119:32

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Psalm 108 with Cyril of Alexandria – Almighty God Over All Things

By belief “in One God,” we cut off the error of false religions who believe in multiple gods, arming ourselves against the Greeks and all opposition on the part of heretics. . . . Of the Greeks, some have said that God is the soul of the world; others that His power does not extend to earth, but only to heaven. Some, working under a similar delusion, pervert the text: your faithfulness reaches to the skies (v. 4), and have dared to limit the providence of God to skies and heaven and to alienate from God the things on earth, forgetting the psalm which says: “If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there” (Ps 139:8). For, if there is nothing higher than heaven, and the depths are deeper than the earth; he who rules the lower regions reaches the earth also. But heretics, as we said before, do not acknowledge one Almighty God. For he is Almighty who rules over all things and exercises authority over all.