Verse 34. — Let him take away his rod from me, and let not his dread terrify me. 62. He corrected us by gentleness rather than by terror. — For through the Law God had held the rod, when He said: If anyone shall do this or that, let him die the death. But being incarnate He took away the rod, since He showed the ways of life through gentleness. Whence it is said to Him through the Psalmist: Attend, go forward prosperously, and reign, because of truth and meekness and justice (Psal. xliv, 5). [Old Version XXXII.] For He willed not to be feared as God, but breathed inspiration that He should be loved as a father. Which Paul plainly says: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption of sons, wherein we cry, Abba, Father (Rom. viii, 15).