Crying Out

Sciote quoniam magnificavit Dominus sanctunm suum; Dominus exaudiet me cum clamavero ad eum. Permanet in increpatione salutari, ut ad verae religionis affectum, corda dementium explosa pravitate convertat: pronuntians illis veritatis arcanum, ut incarnationem sanctum venerabiliter suscipere non recusent. Sanctum suum, dicit Dominum Christum; sicut et alibi de seipsa Veritas profitetur: Custodi animam meam, quoniam sanctus sum. Adjecit: Dominus exaudiet me cum clamavero ad eum. Merito se exaudiri confidebat, quoniam Dominum sanctum magnificandum populis praedicabat. Cum clamavero, dicit, id est, cum bonis operibus divinitati supplicavero. Ipse enim clamor est qui tacitus ad Deum pervenit, et exaudiri facit eos qui bonis operibus constanter insistunt. Cassiodorus, Expositio In Psalterium, Psalm IV Source: Migne PL 49a-b

Know that the Lord has magnified His holy one; the Lord will hear me when I cry out to Him. 1 He persists in crying out for salvation, that he might convert to the love of the true religion the hearts driven off by depravity, announcing to them the secret of the truth, so that they might not refuse to receive the incarnation of the holy one reverently. 'His holy one,' speaks of the Lord Christ, as elsewhere the Truth says about Himself, 'Guard my soul because I am holy.' 2 He then adds, 'The Lord will hear me when I cry out to Him.' He is rightly confident that he will be heard, because he has preached that the holy Lord should be magnified by the people. 'When I cry out,' he says, that is, when I supplicate the Deity with good works. For this is the cry which comes silently to the Lord and He hears those who constantly cry out with good works. Cassiodorus, Commentary On The Psalms, from Psalm 4 1 Ps 4.3 2 Ps 85.2