{"id":125767,"date":"2024-01-01T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125767"},"modified":"2026-01-01T06:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:17:54","slug":"saint-augustine-god-is-the-eternity-that-is-our-refuge-as-we-begin-another-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125767","title":{"rendered":"Saint Augustine&#8211;God is &#8220;the eternity that is our refuge&#8221; as we begin another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8216;Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: and from age even unto age Thou art&#8217; (v. 2). Thou therefore who art for ever, and before we were, and before the world was, hast become our refuge ever since we turned to Thee. &#8230; But he very rightly does not say, Thou wast from ages, and unto ages Thou shalt be: but puts the verb in the present, intimating that the substance of God is altogether immutable. It is not, He was, and Shall be, but only Is. Whence the expression, I Am that I Am; and, I Am &#8216;hath sent me unto you;&#8217; (Exod. iii. 14.) and, &#8216;Thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.&#8217; (Ps. cii. 26, 27.) <b>Behold then the eternity that is our refuge, that we may fly thither from the mutability of time, there to remain for evermore<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Saint Augustine, from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/schaff\/npnf108.ii.XC.html\">Exposition on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XC<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: and from age even unto age Thou art&#8217; (v. 2). Thou therefore who art for ever, and before we were, and before the world was,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125767\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142327,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125767\/revisions\/142327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}