Psalms 24:3
Origen of Alexandria AD 253 · SELECTIONS FROM THE PSALMS 24:3
Where should you stand, you who seek sanctification from God? The writer says, “You have established my feet on the rock.” “Christ was the rock.” Let us learn about the one who follows these promises.
Augustine of Hippo AD 430 · Exposition on Psalm 24
"Who shall ascend into the mount of the Lord?" Who shall ascend to the height of the righteousness of the Lord? "Or who shall stand in His holy place?" [Psalm 24:3]. Or who shall abide in that place, whither He shall ascend, founded above the seas, and prepared above the rivers?
Cassiodorus AD 585 · EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 24:3
After he taught briefly that everything which the Lord created belongs to him, he now embarks on the second section with a question; he answers by telling what sort of people they ought to be who desire to say that they are his.
Thomas Aquinas AD 1274 · Exposition on the Psalms of David
"Who shall ascend?" As if to say: he is great, and how shall one approach him? Eccl. 2: "Who is the man that can follow the king his maker?" And therefore he teaches the manner of reaching him: hence concerning this he does two things. First he poses the question. Second, the answer, at "The innocent in hands." In the question he asks two things: namely, about the way or the movement: "Who shall ascend?" And about the terminus: "Or who shall stand?" The mountain here signifies the height of divine justice or majesty: Ps. 35: "Your justice is like the mountains of God." The mountain therefore is the height of divine majesty, or the sublimity of Christ, who is called a mountain: Is. 2: "In the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted," etc. Who therefore shall ascend so as to reach Christ and God? Holy men who dispose their ascents in their heart shall ascend, as the Psalmist says. Likewise: who will be able to stand there, where he is who is the holy place, the place of glory? Jer. 17: "The place of our sanctification, the expectation of Israel": Ex. 3: "The place where you stand is holy ground": as if to say: who shall be established there? But elsewhere, Ps. 121 says that this is so: "Our feet were standing in your courts, O Jerusalem." Hence next the answer is given.