Qui regis Israel. A prayer for the church in tribulation, commemorating God’s former favours.
The Prophet prayeth for the release of Israel in great tribulation. 15. forsheweth the coming of Christ to redeme man from sinne, and from thraldome of the diuel.
1Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.Per quelli che saranno cangiati: testimonianza di Asaph.Vnto the end, for them, that shal be changed, testimonie to Asaph, a Psalme.In finem, pro iis qui commutabuntur. Testimonium Asaph, psalmus. 2Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forthAscoltaci tu, pastor d'Israele, tu che conduci Giuseppe, come una pecorella. Tu, che se' assiso sopra i Cherubini,Thou that rulest Israel, attend: that conductest Ioseph as a sheepe. Which sittest vpon the cherubs, be manifestQui regis Israël, intende; / qui deducis velut ovem Joseph. / Qui sedes super cherubim, manifestare 3Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.fatti vedere dinanzi ad Efraim, a Beniamin, e a Manasse. Sveglia la tua potenza, e vieni a salvarci.before Ephraim, Beniamin, and Manasses. Raise vp thy might, and come, to saue vs.coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse. / Excita potentiam tuam, et veni, / ut salvos facias nos. 4Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.O Dio, convertici, è mostra a noi la tua faccia, e sarem salvi.O God conuert vs: and shew thy face, & we shal be saued.Deus, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, / et salvi erimus. 5O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?Signore Dio degli eserciti fino a quando ti adirerai, né darai ascolto all'orazione del tuo servo?O Lord the God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie vpon the prayer of thy seruant?Domine Deus virtutum, / quousque irasceris super orationem servi tui ? 6How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?E ci nudrirai con pane di lagrime, e bevanda di lagrime darai a noi in larga misura?Thou wilt feede vs with the bread of teares: and giue vs drinke with teares in mesure.cibabis nos pane lacrimarum, / et potum dabis nobis in lacrimis in mensura ? 7Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.Ci hai renduti oggetto di contraddizione ai nostri vicini, e i nemici nostri nemici si fan beffe di noi.Thou hast made vs to be a contradiction to our neigh: boures and our enimies haue scorned vs.Posuisti nos in contradictionem vicinis nostris, / et inimici nostri subsannaverunt nos. 8O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.Dio degli eserciti, convertici, e mostraci la tua faccia, e sarem salvi.O God of hosts conuert vs: and shew thy face, and we shal be saued.Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, / et salvi erimus.
9Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.Tu dall'Egitto traportasti una vigna: discacciasti le nazioni, e la piantasti.Thou didst transport the vineyeard out of Aegypt: thou didst cast out the Gentiles, and plantedst it.Vineam de Ægypto transtulisti: / ejecisti gentes, et plantasti eam. 10Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.Tu le andasti avanti come condottiere nel viaggio: tu facesti barbicare le sue radici, ed ella empiè la terra.Thou wast the guide of the way in the sight therof: thou didst plant the rootes therof, and it filled the earth.Dux itineris fuisti in conspectu ejus; / plantasti radices ejus, et implevit terram. 11The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.L'ombra di lei ricoperse i monti, e i rami di lei i cedri di Dio.The shadow of it couered the mountanes: and the bowghes of it the ceders of God.Operuit montes umbra ejus, / et arbusta ejus cedros Dei. 12It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.Fino al mare stese ella i suoi tralci, e le sue propagini fino al fiume.It extended her branches euen to the sea; and her boughes vnto the riuer.Extendit palmites suos usque ad mare, / et usque ad flumen propagines ejus. 13Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?Per qual motivo hai tu distrutta la sua siepe, e la vendemmiano tutti quei, che passano per istrada?Why hast thou destroyed the hedge therof: and al that passe by the way doe plucke it.Ut quid destruxisti maceriam ejus, / et vindemiant eam omnes qui prætergrediuntur viam ? 14The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.Il cinghiale del bosco la ha sterminata, e la fiera solitaria feroce ne ha fatto pasto.The boare of the wood hath destroyed it: and the singular wilde beest hath eaten it.Exterminavit eam aper de silva, / et singularis ferus depastus est eam. 15Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:Dio degli eserciti, volgiti a noi, mira dal cielo, e vedi, e visita questa vigna.O God of hoasts returne: regard from heauen, and see, and visite this vineyeard.Deus virtutum, convertere, / respice de cælo, et vide, / et visita vineam istam: 16And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.E lei coltiva, che fu piantata dalla tua destra: e mira quel figliuolo dell'uomo, cui tu eleggesti.And perfite it, which thy right hand hath planted: and vpon the sonne of man whom thou hast confirmed to thee.et perfice eam quam plantavit dextera tua, / et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi.
17Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.Ella è stata arsa dal fuoco, e di radicata: ma a' minacciosi tuoi sguardi periranno i nemici.Thinges burnt with fyre, and digged doune at the increpation of thy countenance shal perish.Incensa igni et suffossa, / ab increpatione vultus tui peribunt. 18Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.Sia la mano tua sopra l'uomo della tua destra, e sopra il figliuolo dell'uomo, cui tu ti eleggesti.Let thy hand be vpon the man of thy right hand: and vpon the sonne of man, whom thou hast confirmed to thee.Fiat manus tua super virum dexteræ tuæ, / et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi. 19And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.E noi non recediamo da te: tu ci darai nuova vita, e noi invocheremo il tuo nome.And we depart not from thee, thou wilt quicken, vs: and we wil inuocate thy name.Et non discedimus a te: / vivificabis nos, et nomen tuum invocabimus. 20O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.Signore Dio degli eserciti convertici, e mostraci la tua faccia, e sarem salvi.O Lord the God of hoastes conuert vs: and shew thy face, and we shal be saued.Domine Deus virtutum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, / et salvi erimus.
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Haydock
Testimony, or instruction, (Calmet) and proof of the psalmist's faith. (Haydock)
Berthier
Psalm. Vatican Septuagint, St. Augustine, etc., add, "for (or against) the Assyrian:" whence some have inferred that it relates to the captivity of Israel. But as Benjamin is also mentioned, it seems rather to speak of the captives of Babylon, (Calmet) or of all Jews and Christians in distress. (Berthier)
Calmet
The faithful pray for the coming of the Messias, ver. 2, 4, 16. (Haydock) (Fathers) (Calmet)
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Joseph. He mentions these two as persons dear to God. All the tribes were equally led away captives, and the distinction of kingdoms was not regarded. (Calmet)
Bellarmine
All Israel is denoted by Joseph, who composed two tribes, having the double portion; (Worthington; Menochius) and ruling in Egypt. (Bellarmine)
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Manasses. These three tribes followed the ark in the desert, (Numbers 2:18.) and might better see the majesty shining over it. (Worthington) (Calmet)
Muis
Let all be united once more in the divine service. (Muis)
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Saved. This chorus occurs three (Worthington) or four times. (Calmet)
St. Jerome
With God's grace, we shall be able to act virtuously. (St. Jerome)
Worthington
Thou canst easily rescue us from our misery. Be pleased to send us the Messias, thy substantial image, 2 Corinthians 4:4., and Colossians 1:15. If thou assist us, we may co-operate to obtain salvation. (Worthington)
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St. Jerome
Measure. Hebrew shalish, "three-fold." (St. Jerome)
Calmet
The capacity of this measure is not determined. It might be the seah, or the third part of an epha, which would be very abundant, speaking of tears; though small to contain the earth, Isaias 40:12. (Calmet)
St. Jerome
Penitents must eat little. (St. Jerome)
Calmet
Yet their sorrow must be moderated by hope. (Eusebius) See Osee 9:4. (Calmet)
Worthington
God punishes so as not to destroy us. (Worthington)
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At us. See Psalm 78:4. (Haydock)
Calmet
Such was the condition of Jeremias, 15:10. (Calmet)
Berthier
Hebrew, "have scoffed among themselves." Chaldean and St. Jerome agree with us. Scorn is more difficult to bear than poverty. Hence to comfort himself, the psalmist repeats, O God, etc. (Berthier)
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Sight. Hebrew, "Thou didst dig before it," (Montanus) making the ground ready. (Calmet)
Worthington
The cloud went before the Israelites. (Worthington)
Haydock
Land of promise. (Haydock)
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God. The highest cedars were surpassed by the branches, or even by the smallest shoots (arbusta) of this vine. (Haydock)
Calmet
The Israelites were exceedingly multiplied, (Worthington) and enjoyed the fruits of the country, Micheas 4:4. (Calmet)
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River Euphrates, from the Mediterranean, Red, and Indian seas. (Haydock) (Deuteronomy 11:24.)
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It? Thou hast withdrawn thy protection. The temple is destroyed, and all plunder with impunity, because thy vineyard has not rendered good fruit, Jeremias 2:21.
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Worthington
Singular. The wild boar, which does not go with other beasts. Nabuchodonosor is here designated, (Calmet) or Salmanasar, and all persecutors, (Berthier) particularly the devil, who goes about like a roaring lion, [1 Peter 5:8.] and stirs up his agents to disturb the world. Hence the enemy becomes more cruel than any wild beast. (Worthington)
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And look down upon "the Messias," (Chaldean) the true vine, John 15:1., and Matthew 21:33. (Calmet)
Haydock
Of man, is not in Hebrew, only, ver. 18. (Haydock)
Some perfection was wanting in the Church of the Old Testament.
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Challoner
Things set on fire, etc. So this vineyard of thine, almost consumed already, must perish if thou continue thy rebukes. (Challoner)
Berthier
Things, would imply that incensa is in the neuter plural. But this is not the case in Septuagint or Hebrew. (Berthier)
Haydock
St. Jerome has succensam, "Look down upon the vine or root, (17) burn up and without any branches. Let them perish at," etc., who have thus treated it. (Haydock)
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The man of thy right hand. Christ, (Challoner) where he sits, (Calmet) being as man in the highest place of heaven, Matthew 26:64., and 12:32. (Haydock)
Calmet
Who else could redeem Israel? (Calmet)
Haydock
Zorobabel was only a figure of Him. (Haydock)
Berthier
Christ's birth was miraculous, (Menochius) and he was appointed by the right hand of God to do great things; and, as man, is moved to take compassion on the distresses of his people. (Berthier)
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From thee. This is our fixed determination for the future. (Haydock)
Calmet
Will call. Hebrew, "Shall be called by thy name," (St. Jerome; Haydock) thy people. (Symmachus) (Calmet)
Haydock
But the Vulgate is equally correct, invocabimus. (Montanus) (Protestants) (Haydock)
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Things set on fire, etc.... So this vineyard of thine, almost consumed already, must perish, if thou continue thy rebukes.
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The man of thy right hand.... Christ.
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Perteyning to the new Testament,
especially to Gentiles, that shal be conuerted to Christ.
for perpetual memorie to the congregation of faithful.
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By Ioseph the prophet vnderstandeth al Israel; because the first birthright being taken from Ruben wa• geuen to him, to witte duble portion of enheritance, two tribes of twelue.
Appeare, and shew thy mightie hand before thy people:
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wherof Ephraim, Beniamin, and Manasses folowing the Arke, when they marched or camped, should most directly see what appeared therin, the other nine tribes being placed before it, and on both sides. Num. 2.
Thou which alwayes can helpe vs, now vse thy powre in deliuering vs from this temporal miserie.
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Set vs in a better state
Shew thy benigne countenance and fauoure, Mystically, send the promised Messias, Christ, the essential Image of God. 2. Cor. 4. v. 4. Collos. 1 v. 15.
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How long wilt thou differre to heare our prayer?
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Thou dost iustly punish vs, but thou temperest the same with measure, that it exceede not to our ruine.
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God first preuenting vvith his grace,
man may cooperate therwith to his iustification, and saluation.
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Thy Church and people,
the Chananites.
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The cloude, and piller of fire were visible guides.
and it multiplied mightely.
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Hyperbolical speach to signifie the great multiplication of the Israelites.
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from the mediterranean sea of Palestin,
to the riuer Euphrates. Exo. 23. v. 31. Beut, 11. v. 24.
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eruel enimies more like to most cruel beastes then to men.
yea so cruel, as none els in the world are like vnto them.
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The Prophet now prayeth for the coming of Christ, which he saw in spirite.
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The Church of the old testament, in her best state, wanted the perfection, which the Church of Christ hath.
Christ our Messias most commonly calleth by this title: The Sonne of man.
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So thy vinyard can not indure if it be stil afflicted, and trodden downe.
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Christ working by Gods powre redresseth almiseries.
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The same is the 8. and the 15. verse (with litle alteration) and here repeted the third time, In which we also pray for three thinges first to be purged, and conuerted from sinne, second to be illuminated by Christ, the Image of God, Thirdly to be sanctified, and saued in eternal glorie to haue the fruition of the most blessed Trinitie.
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St Irenaeus of Lyons † AD 202 Against Heresies 3.11.8
… From which fact, it is evident that the Word, the Artificer of all, He that sitteth upon the cherubim, and contains all things, He who was manifested to men, has given us the Gospel under four aspects, but bound together by one Spirit. As also David says, when entreating His manifestation, “Thou that sittest between the cherubim, shine forth.”
St Gregory Thaumaturgus † AD 270 Four Homilies 1
… She wrapped in swaddling-clothes Him who made every creature. She laid in a manger Him who sits above the cherubim
St Gregory Thaumaturgus † AD 270 Four Homilies 2
… “And there was no room for them in the inn.” He found no room who founded the whole earth by His word. She nourished with her milk Him who imparts sustenance and life to everything that hath breath. She wrapped Him in swaddling-clothes who binds the whole creation fast with His word. She laid Him in a manger who rides seated upon the cherubim.
St Basil the Great † AD 379 De Spiritu Sancto 19
… And Isaiah, “The Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me,” and “the Spirit came down from the Lord and guided them.” And pray do not again understand by this guidance some humble service, for the Word witnesses that it was the work of God;—“Thou leddest thy people,” it is said “like a flock,” and “Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock,”
St Cyril of Jerusalem † AD 386 The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril 8.8
8. God then is One, the Father, the Almighty, whom the brood of heretics have dared to blaspheme. Yea, they have dared to blaspheme the Lord of Sabaoth , who sitteth above the Cherubim
St Gregory of Nyssa † AD 395 Against Eunomius 2.15
… For who is so demented and beside himself as to wait for us to tell him that the Holy Spirit is not a bell nor an empty cask sounding an accompaniment and made to ring by the voice of him who prays as it were by a blow? “Leading us to that which is expedient for us.” This the Father and the Son likewise do: for “He leadeth Joseph like a sheep
St Ambrose of Milan † AD 397 Exposition of the Christian Faith 5.6
84. Therefore, although we may think the demand to have been possible, there is no room for false attacks. However, when I read that the seraphim stand, how can I suppose that men may sit on the right hand or the left of the Son of God? The Lord sits upon the cherubim, as it says: “Thou that sittest upon the cherubim, show myself.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 On the Holy Trinity 5.8
… but by the name of God, both Himself and the Son and the Holy Spirit, because the Trinity is one God. But position, and condition, and places, and times, are not said to be in God properly, but metaphorically and through similitudes. For He is both said to dwell between the cherubims,
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.2
2. What is, “Thou that feedest Israel, hearken, Thou that conducteth Joseph like sheep”? (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 5.13
… For this happens to them, not because he appears to have wished for it, but because they are such as to deserve that it should happen. For so also what he says afterwards, “Let all that hope in Thee rejoice,” he says by way of prophecy; since he perceives that they will rejoice. Likewise is it said prophetically, “Stir up Thy strength, and come:”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.2
… hold by the root, and of the greatness of the tree think not. Be there in thee love, and the fulness of knowledge must needs follow. For what doth he not know that knoweth love? Inasmuch as it hath been said, “God is love.” “Appear.” For we went astray because Thou didst not appear. “Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants 2.5
… when we turn away from Him, He forsakes us. But then He helps us even to turn to Him; and this, certainly, is something that light does not do for the eyes of the body. When, therefore, He commands us in the words, “Turn ye unto me, and I will turn unto you,” and we say to Him, “Turn us, O God of our salvation,” and again, “Turn us, O God of hosts;”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 A Treatise on Grace and Free Will 31
… and make you a new heart and a new spirit; and keep all my commandments. For why will ye die, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? for I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: and turn ye, and live.” We should remember that it is He who says, “Turn ye and live,” to whom it is said in prayer, “Turn us again, O God.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.3
3. “O God, convert us.” For averse we have been from Thee, and except Thou convert us, we shall not be converted. “And illumine Thy face, and we shall be saved” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.4
4. “O Lord God of virtues, how long wilt Thou be angry with the prayer of Thy servant?” (
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St Basil the Great † AD 379 The Letters 219
The Lord ordereth “all things in measure and weight,” and brings on us the temptations which do not exceed our power to endure them, but tests all that fight in the cause of true religion by affliction, not suffering them to be tempted above that they are able to bear. He gives tears to drink in great measure
St Ambrose of Milan † AD 397 On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus 1.33
… for whom thy tomb is a lodging, and the burying-place of thy body a home. And would that even this resting-place were safe! Our food is mingled with weeping and our drink with tears, for thou hast given us the bread of tears as food, and tears to drink in large measure,
St Ambrose of Milan † AD 397 Concerning Repentance 1.13
59. Lastly , Paul teaches us that we must not abandon those who have committed a sin unto death, but that we must rather coerce them with the bread of tears and tears to drink, yet so that their sorrow itself be moderated. For this is the meaning of the passage: “Thou hast given them to drink in large measure,”
St Jerome † AD 420 Against the Pelagians 2
lxxx. 5 . “Thou feedest us with the bread of tears.” Similarly
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 The Confessions 9.10
… yea, we soared higher yet by inward musing, and discoursing, and admiring Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might advance as high as that region of unfailing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 62.13
… but he only smiteth against, so far as he receiveth power. But in order that the wall may not fall, the Lord will support: for He that giveth power to the tempter, doth Himself to the tempted extend mercy. For according to measure the devil is permitted to tempt. And, “Thou wilt give us to drink in tears in a measure.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 79.8
… 5 ). He is evidently asking God not to be angry unto the end, that is, that this so great oppression and tribulation and devastation may not continue even unto the end; but that He moderate His chastening, according to that which is said in another Psalm, “Thou shalt feed us with the bread of tears, and Thou shalt give us to drink of tears in measure.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.4
… He who did not spare even His only Son, scourgeth every one. But nevertheless, “How long wilt Thou be angry with the prayer of Thy servant?” No longer thine enemy: but, “Thou wilt be angry with the prayer of Thy servant,” how long? There followeth: “Thou wilt feed us with the bread of tears, and wilt give us to drink with tears in measure” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.5
5. “Thou hast set us for a contradiction to our neighbours” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Letters of St. Augustin 130.22
… For example, when one prays: “Be Thou glorified among all nations as Thou art glorified among us,” and “Let Thy prophets be found faithful,” what else does he ask than, “Hallowed be Thy name”? When one says: “Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved,”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 A Treatise on Grace and Free Will 10
… Now the persons who hold this opinion fail to observe that, unless our turning to God were itself God’s gift, it would not be said to Him in prayer, “Turn us again, O God of hosts;”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints 1.15
“Why,” say they, “does He not teach all men?” If we should say that they whom He does not teach are unwilling to learn, we shall be met with the answer: And what becomes of what is said to Him, “O God, Thou wilt turn us again, and quicken us”?
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament 62.1
… In the Apostolic lesson thanks are rendered unto the Lord for the faith of the Gentiles, of course, because it was His work. In the Psalm we have said, “O God of hosts, turn us, and show us Thy Face, and we shall be saved.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John 53.11
… For conversion itself is likewise a gift of His grace, as when it is said to Him, “Turn us, O God of Hosts.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.5
… For a long while it was said, Who are they that worship the Dead One, that adore the Crucified? For a long while so it was said. Where is the nose of them that sneered? Now do not they that censure flee into caves, that they may not be seen? But ye see what followeth: “O Lord God of virtues, convert us, and show Thy face, and we shall be whole” (
John Cassian † AD 435 The Conferences of John Cassian 8.8
… One of the Apostles too says still more plainly: “But the angels who kept not their first estate, but left their own dwelling, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day.” This too which is said to us: “But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes,”
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St Gregory of Nazianzus † AD 389 Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen 42.5
… And the land of promise is distributed through one who was hated, and he who was sold dispossesses nations, and is himself made a great nation, and that small offshoot becomes a luxuriant vine, so great that it reaches to the river, and is stretched out to the sea,
St John Chrysostom † AD 407 The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom 44
… but He discourses unto all, fulfilling His part, although foreknowing the results; that it may be in His power to say, “What ought I to have done, that I have not done?” And the prophets speak of the people as of a vine; “For my beloved,” it is said, “had a vineyard;” and, “He brought a vine out of Egypt;”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.5
… Where is the nose of them that sneered? Now do not they that censure flee into caves, that they may not be seen? But ye see what followeth: “O Lord God of virtues, convert us, and show Thy face, and we shall be whole” ( ver. 7 ). “A vineyard out of Egypt Thou hast brought over, Thou hast cast out the nations, and hast planted her” (
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St Gregory of Nazianzus † AD 389 Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen 43.41
… And when he saw the great heritage of God, purchased by His own words and laws and sufferings, the holy nation, the royal priesthood, in such evil plight that it was torn asunder into ten thousand opinions and errors: and the vine brought out of Egypt and transplanted,
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.6
6. “A way Thou hast made in the sight of her, and hast planted the roots of her, and she hath filled the land” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.6
… What was the way which was made in the sight of her? “I am,” He saith, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” With reason she hath filled the land. That hath now been said of this vineyard, which hath been accomplished at the last. But in the mean time what? “She hath covered the mountains with her shadow, and with her branch the cedars of God” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.6
… That hath now been said of this vineyard, which hath been accomplished at the last. But in the mean time what? “She hath covered the mountains with her shadow, and with her branch the cedars of God” ( ver. 10 ). “Thou hast stretched out her boughs even unto the sea, and even unto the river her shoots” (
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Eusebius of Caesarea † AD 339 The Church History of Eusebius 10.4.33
… wood in a forest, whom they broke down with hatchet and hammer,’ whose books also they destroyed, ‘burning with fire the sanctuary of God, and profaning unto the ground the habitation of his name,’ ‘whom all that passed by upon the way plucked, and whose fences they broke down, whom the boar out of the wood ravaged, and on which the savage wild beast fed,’
St Gregory of Nazianzus † AD 389 Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy 101
I desire to learn what is this fashion of innovation in things Concerning the Church, which allows anyone who likes, or the passerby,
St John Chrysostom † AD 407 Homilies on Philippians 6
… For hear what another prophet speaks in his lamentations: “Why hast thou broken down her fences, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.” (
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.7
7. Then what? “Wherefore hast Thou thrown down her enclosure?” (
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St Jerome † AD 420 Jerome's Apology for Himself Against the Books of Rufinus 2.24
… yet it is now made the subject of a charge against me; and I find that the food pressed upon them turns upon the stomach. What is there in human life that can be safe if innocence is made the object of accusation? I am the householder who finds that while he slept the enemy has sown tares among his wheat.
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.8
8. “There hath laid her waste the boar from the wood” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.9
9. But with what profit is this? “O God of virtues turn Thou nevertheless” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.9
9. But with what profit is this? “O God of virtues turn Thou nevertheless” ( ver. 14 ). Although these things have been done, “Turn Thou nevertheless.” “Look from heaven and see, and visit this vineyard.” “And perfect Thou her whom Thy right hand hath planted” (
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St John Chrysostom † AD 407 The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch 2.22
… and as in the one case hunger is the cause of pleasure, far more than the quality of the viands, so also in the other, thirst usually makes the draught sweetest, although what is drunk is only water. And this is that which the prophet intimated, when he said, “He satisfied them with honey out of the rock.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.10
10. “Things burned with fire, and dug up, by the rebuke of Thy countenance shall perish” (
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St Cyril of Jerusalem † AD 386 The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril 12.7
… none could apply mollifying ointment, neither oil, nor bandages . Then bewailing and wearying themselves, the Prophets said, Who shall give salvation out of Sion ? And again, Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself: so will not we go back from Thee
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 The Confessions 11.2
… Behold whence is my desire. Behold, Father, look and see, and approve; and let it be pleasing in the sight of Thy mercy, that I may find grace before Thee, that the secret things of Thy Word may be opened unto me when I knock. I beseech, by our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, “the Man of Thy right hand, the Son of man, whom Thou madest strong for Thyself,”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints 2.14
… Wherefore it was said to Him by the mouth of the prophet, “Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, and upon the Son of man whom Thou madest strong for Thyself, and we will not depart from Thee.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.11
11. “Let Thy hand be upon the Man of Thy right hand, and upon the Son of Man whom Thou hast strengthened Thyself” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.11
11. “Let Thy hand be upon the Man of Thy right hand, and upon the Son of Man whom Thou hast strengthened Thyself” ( ver. 17 ). “And we depart not from Thee.…Thou wilt quicken us, and Thy Name we will invoke” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 The Confessions 4.10
15. “Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts, cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 68.28
28. “The Lord hath said, Out of Basan I will be turned” ( ver. 22 ): or, as some copies have, “Out of Basan I will turn.” For He turneth that we may be safe, of whom above hath been said, “God of our healths, and God of saving men.” For to Him elsewhere also is said, “O God of virtues, turn Thou us, and show Thy face, and safe we shall be.”
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 80.11
… “Thou wilt quicken us;” Thou wilt renew us, the life of the inward man Thou wilt give us. “And Thy Name we will invoke;” that is, Thee we will love. Thou to us wilt be the sweet forgiver of our sins, Thou wilt be the entire reward of the justified. “O Lord God of virtues, convert us, and show Thy face, and we shall be whole” (
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v. 6 cibasti eos pane lacrimarum, cf. 41, 4; similiter Is. 30, 20 dabit Dominus panem arctum et aquam brevem ; et cum lacrimis dedisti eis potum in mensura; Hier vertit : potasüi nos in lacrimis tripliciter, Sym ἐπότίσας ἡμᾶς μετὰ δαχρύων μέτρῳ. Hebr שליש tertia pars alicuius mensurae (trientalis), fortasse ephae? certa portio potus? Simili imagine utitur Ieremias : Deus potum dedit nobis aquam fellis (8, 14; cf. 9, 14; 23, 15 Lam. 3, 19. Ps. 68, 22). Ad domesticas tribulationes accedunt infestationes ab alienigenis
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v. 7 vicinae tribus excitant iurgium contra nos; ita Ezechiel accusat [dumaeos ; quod concluserint filios Israel in manus gladii in tempore afflictionis eorum (Ez. 35, 5; 36, 3.7) et subsannaverunt nos ; cf. 43, 14 ; 78, &; hebr inimici nostri subsannant v25 sibi i. 6. pro lubitu; dativum ethicum vocant grammatici. Ob irrisionem hostium repetitur versus intercalaris v. 8. Proponuntur Deo beneficia quae olim suis praestitit v. 9-12 allegoria vitis seu vineae ; cf. Is. 5, 1 sq. 27, 2-6. Ier. 2, 21 ego plantavi te vineam electam. Vitem ut plantaret Deus in Palaestina, eiecit gentes dit ut vitis bene radices ageret et cresceret; ita
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v. 10 hebr praeparasti ante faciem eius (Hier), scil. solum praeparavit, v. g. ut dicitur Is. 5, 2lapides elegit ex ea ; dein vitis egit radices et implevit terram (hebr), bene crevit et multos eiecit palmites. Id quod hyperbolice
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v. 11 exprimitur : operti sunt montes umbra eius (hebr, Hier) et ramis eius cedri Dei; arbores enim vitibus et palmitibus tamquam fulera erant; plantabantur quippe vites iuxta arbores, ut claviculis arbores ' apprehenderent et erigerentur. Nobiles designantur vites quibus nempe cedri .Dei, eximiae, Deo dignae (35, 7) fulera essent. Et quam late vitis emiserit palmites,
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v. 12 exponitur; usque ad mare et usque ad flumen, Euphraten scil. ; assignantur termini terrae quos Deus populo suo dare promisit Ex. 23, 31. Deut. 11, 24, Ios. 1, 4. Felix itaque populi conditio imagine hac et allegoria exhibetur. lam eodem modo hostiles incursus et destructio regni describuntur. Cur vineam tuam perdidisti?
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v. 13 αὐ quid destruxisti maceriam etus, sepem, murum ; cur protectionem tuam populo tuo subtraxisti ? unde ויו יי factum est, ut undique alienigenae populum tuum vexarent, spoliarent; cf. 88, 42 diripuerunt eum omnes transeuntes viam; + Reg. 24, 2; v. 1^ exterminavit, ἐλυμήνατο, Hier vastavit, Sym χατενεμή- σατο depavit, syr comedit, targum sulfodiet, aper de silva, cogitari potest de variis regibus Theglathphalasar, Salmanassar, Sennacherib, Nechao, Nabuchodonosor, qui invaserunt regionem ; e£ ferus singu-. laris, LXX. μονιὸς ἄγριος, fera bellua solivaga vivens; hebr ΤῊ (cf. ad 49, 11) vertit Hier omnes bestiae, item syr, et idem videtur Aq zavτοδαπὴν innuere; unde multiplex genus bestiarum ; vel uti recentiores explicant : quod sese movet : collectivum nomen. Possunt ita. designari illi, quos Iahve, dominus terrae, vicinos suos pessimos appellat (Ier. 12, 14). Apponendus hie erit versus intercalaris integer, cuius prior pars legitur in v. 5. | Iam ardentes funduntur preces, ut Deus misereatur vineae suae eamque denuo in meliorem conditionem redigat :
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v. 15 respice, vide, visita; cum emphasi petitur ; quid fieri debeat, dicitur
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v. 16 LXX χατάρ- τισαι αὐτήν restaura eam, quam plantavit dextera tua ; affertur valida ratio, ne Deus opus suum perire ac perdi permittat. (Quod sequitur super filium, potest solum referri ad visita ; unde verum textum exhibere videntur Hier et syr, qui imperativum illum (LXX, vulg perfice eam) non legunt, sed eius loco substantivum : radicem, propaginem. Dicens autem psaltes : visita super. filium petitionem 1am pro populo offert; vocaverat quippe Deus Israel filium suum primogenitum et mandaverat Pharaoni : dimitte filium meum (Ex. 4, 22, 23. Ier. 34, 30. Is. 1, 2). Ad Dei misericordiam excitandam iterum ei proponitur status vineae lugubris plane ac miserandus
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v. 17 incensa igni et suffossa, et transitu facto ab imagine ad rem : a5 increpatione vultus tui, a comminatione tua pereunt. Vide scil. populum. eiusque statum perditionis miserum (cf. Is. 03, 18, 19; 64, 10-12.) . Cui statui flebili ut remedium afferatur, interpellatur potentia Dei
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v. 18 fiat manus tua, potentia tua ostendatur super virum dexterae tuae 1. e. populum tuum, qui populus repraesentatus est in vite hac quam plantavit dextera tua v. 15; unde nunc dicitur applicatione facta vir dexterae tuae ; idem populus dicitur in altero membro : filius hominis quem con[irmasti tibi, elegisti tibi et tuo auxilio munivisti et contra omnes incursus hostiles servasti (cf. Ex. 19, 5-6 ; Deut. 9, 6-9). Huic petitioni adiungitur promissio et firmum desiderium ;
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v. 19 e£ non discedimus a te; tibi adhaerebimus fideliter ; nam vita omnis ae beati- - tas est in uno Deo : vivificabis nos, et cur haec vita a Deo nobis sit largienda, ratio valida est ex versione Sym, Hier : in nomine tuo vocabimur ; vocamur populus Iahve; sed hebr, LXX, syr, targum : ef intercalari, compendio totius psalmi, qui hic forma integra ac sollemni effertur : lahve Deus exercituum (v. 4). —
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… With the door open the following texts are recited: Ps. 79:6-7; 69:25; Lam. 3:66. The 4th cup is filled and Ps. 115-18 (v. HALLEL), 136 and various extra-biblical hymns are read. …
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