Holy Week Preparation - Week 7: Tuesday

Psalm 44:7

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; Your royal scepter is a scepter of uprightness.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Now the throne of the Jewish Kingdom was a temporal one; belonging to those who were under the Law, not to those who were under "grace:" He came to "redeem those who were under the Law," and to place them under "Grace." His "Throne is for ever and ever." Why? for that first throne of the Kingdom was but a temporal one: whence then have we a "throne for ever and ever"? Because it is God's throne. O divine Attribute of Eternity! for God could not have a temporal throne.