The Enarrations, or Expositions, on the Psalms

⁶ Let us see then what he seeks, with what right he has said, “quickly hear me.” For what do you seek, that you should quickly be heard? “You shall multiply me.” In many ways may multiplication be understood....For men are multiplied in their soul with cares: a man seems to be multiplied in soul, in whom vices even are multiplied. That is the multiplication of want, not of fullness. What then do you desire, thou who hast said, “quickly hear me,” and hast withdrawn yourself entirely from the body, from every earthly thing, from every earthly desire, so as to say to God, “You shall multiply me in my soul”? Explain yet further what you desire. You shall multiply me, says he, in my soul “with virtue.”...