One author comments on Psalm 1...
"We have noticed that our Lord seems to quote one of the expressions of this Psalm ; and let us see how we may suppose it all read by him in the days of his flesh. We know He read it ; his delight was in the law of the Lord ; and often has he quoted the book of Psalms. As he read, it would be natural, to his human soul to appropriate the blessedness pronounced on the godly ; for he knew and felt himself to be indeed the godly, who " had not walked in the counsels of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful" He felt himself able to say at all times, "Your law is within my heart !" Was He not the true palm-tree ? Was He not the true pomegranate-tree? Can we help thinking on Him as alone realizing the description in this Psalm ? The members of his mystical Body, in their measure, aim at this holy walk ; but it is only in him that they see it perfectly exemplified. "His leaf ...
