The Hand

Emitte manum tuam de alto... Sed et ex alto manus Domini emittitur. Manum autem Dei Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum significari in Spiritu, non obscura doctrina est. Per eum enim facta sunt omnia. Et scriptum legimus, Manus enim, inquit, mea auxiliabitur ei: quia per Filium Dei homo assumptus, laqueis mortis et judicio iniquae damnationis per gloriam resurrectionis eripitur. Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, Tractatus super Psalmos, Tractatus in Psalmum CXLIII Source: Migne PL 9.602b-603a

Send forth your hand from on high... 1 From on high the hand of the Lord is sent. And that the hand of the Lord signifies our Lord Jesus Christ in the Spirit, is not an obscure teaching. For 'through Him all things were made.' 2 And we read that it is written, 'My hand,' he says, 'shall help him.' 3 Because man was taken up by the Son of God, and through the glory of the resurrection seized from the snares of death and from the judgement of the iniquitous to damnation. Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms, from Psalm 143 1 Ps Ps 143.7 2 Jn 1.3 3 Ps 88.22