“And in your name I will lift up my hands”: Lift up, therefore, hands in prayer. Our Lord has lifted up for us his hands on the cross, and stretched out were his hands for us, and therefore were his hands stretched out on the cross, in order that our hands might be stretched out with good works; because his cross has brought us mercy. Behold, he has lifted up his hands, andd has offered for us himself a sacrifice to God, and through that sacrifice have all our sins been effaced.

—Augustine, Commentary on Psalm 62