Dominus regnavit. The glory and stability of the kingdom; that is, of the church of Christ. Praise in the way of a canticle, for David himself, on the day before the sabbath, when the earth was founded.
Christ reigneth for euer in his Church: 3. notwith standing manie and great persecution against the faithful.
1The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.Lauda, ovver cantico dello stesso Davidde pel giorno, che precede il sabato, quando la terra fu fondata. Il Signore ha preso possesso del Regno, si è ammantato di splendore, si è ammantato di fortezza, e ne ha cinti i suoi fianchi. Perocché egli diede fermo stato alla terra, la quale non sarà smossa.Prayse of Canticle to Dauid himselfe, in the day before the sabbath, when the earth was founded. OVR Lord e hath reigned, he hath put on beutie: our Lord hath put on strength, and hath girded him selfe. For he hath established the round world, which shal not be moued.Laus cantici ipsi David, in die ante sabbatum, quando fundata est terra. Dominus regnavit, decorem indutus est: / indutus est Dominus fortitudinem, et præcinxit se. / Etenim firmavit orbem terræ, qui non commovebitur. 2My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting.Fin d'allora fu preparato, o Dio, il tuo trono: tu se' ab eterno.Thy seat is prepared from that time: thou art from euerlasting.Parata sedes tua ex tunc; / a sæculo tu es. 3The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,I fiumi hanno alzata, o Signore, hanno alzata i fiumi la loro voce. I fiumi hanno alzati i loro flutti sopra lo strepito delle molte acque.The riuers ô Lord haue lifted vp: the riuers haue lifted vp their voice. The riuers haue lifted vp their waues,Elevaverunt flumina, Domine, / elevaverunt flumina vocem suam; / elevaverunt flumina fluctus suos, 4With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high.Mirabil cosa le elevazioni del mare: più mirabile il Signore nell'alto.aboue the voices of manie waters. The surges of the sea are meruelous; meruelous is our Lord on high.a vocibus aquarum multarum. / Mirabiles elationes maris; / mirabilis in altis Dominus. 5Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days.Le tue parole sono oltre modo degne di fede: alla casa tua si conviene, o Signore, la santità per la lunghezza de' secoli.Thy testimonies are made credible exceedingly: holines becometh thy house ô Lord for length of daies.Testimonia tua credibilia facta sunt nimis; / domum tuam decet sanctitudo, Domine, / in longitudinem dierum.
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Worthington
Founded. Septuagint, "inhabited." This title occurs not in Hebrew (Theodoret) nor are the copies of the Septuagint uniform, which shews that it is a later insertion, intimating perhaps, that it was sung on Friday, when the works of creation were completed, (Berthier) and the world redeemed. (Worthington)
It seems to refer to the translation of the ark, (Muis; 1 Paralipomenon 16:30.) and the establishment of the Church, the house of God, though the universe may be so styled, (Berthier) or it speaks of the return from captivity, (Ven. Bede) as well as the preceding and following psalms.
Berthier
Himself. As if to perform some great work, the liberation of his people from the captivity of Babylon, and of the devil, (Calmet) or to create the world. (Berthier)
Houbigant
Established. "Weighed." (Houbigant)
Haydock
Moved, or disturbed in the order established by him. (Haydock)
Berthier
This does not prove that the earth moves not on its own axis daily, and round the sun every year. (Berthier)
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Calmet
Of old. Literally, "that time," ex tunc, (Worthington) alluding to some distant period, Isaias 16:13. (Calmet)
Haydock
God's throne is established over creatures, as soon as they exist. (Haydock)
Calmet
Yet he is eternal, (Menochius) as Christ is likewise. At his ascension, He placed his sacred humanity on the throne. (Calmet)
Worthington
His kingdom, the Church, continues for ever. (Worthington)
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Worthington
Floods. The apostles, (Eusebius; St. Augustine) or persecutors. (Worthington)
Calmet
Waves. This sentence is not in the Roman Septuagint, etc. (Calmet)
Calmet
But it is in the Alexandrian and Aldine editions. Storms and tides fill all with awe and astonishment. (Calmet)
Menochius
The motion of waters, when they were first confined to their channels, and the persecutions of the Church, and rebellions against God, are described. (Menochius)
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Calmet
On high. In heaven, more to be admired than all the phenomena of nature, and more powerful than all the vast armies of the Babylonians, Isaias 40:15. (Calmet)
Worthington
The conversion of many nations, (Apocalypse 17:5.) is the work and glory of God, (Haydock) and his preserving the Church in the midst of the most violent attacks, shews his power. (Worthington)
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Credible. St. Jerome, "faithful."
Haydock
Protestants, "very sure." (Haydock)
Eusebius † AD 339
A person must shut his eyes not to see the prophecies fulfilled concerning Christ, and his Church. (Eusebius)
Berthier
The majesty of God should strike us with a holy fear, and teach us to observe his commandments, and to behave with the utmost respect in his house, (Calmet) which is the whole world, or the society of the faithful. (Berthier)
Haydock
Articles of faith are perfectly credible to those whose hearts are moved by grace, (Worthington) though they cannot be understood. (Haydock)
Worthington
All the members of the Church should carefully approve themselves to God, who is her spouse, (Worthington) and protector, (Menochius) to the end of the world. (Worthington)
Calmet
Days. Since thy power and fidelity are so great, suffer not thy temple to be any longer in ruins, or profaned. (Calmet)
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Praise to be songue vvith voice
composed by Dauid:
the sixth day of the weeke, vvhich is our friday,
in vvhich day the Church of Christ vvas founded, by his bloud shed on the crosse.
gloriously escending in soule into limbus, and in bodie to his graue:
he then put on al armour of strength strength to reforme the world, and to inlarge his kingdom, according to his owne prediction where he saide: If I be exalted from the earth, I wil draw al thinges vnto myselfe. Ioan. 12. v. 31.
Our Sauiour founding his Church by his death begane then to reigne therin:
Not only in Iurie and Samaria, but the whole earth:
and the same Church shal not be destroyed.
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Christ being eternal, hath an euerlasting Church.
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Al sortes of persecuters, the High priestes (who sometimes vvatered the spiritual land, like riuers) vvith Scribes, Pharises, and other incredulous Ievves, also Paganes, Turkes, and Heretikes haue oppugned the Church.
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With more force then anie persecutions in the old Testament.
but though al these assaultes be great, and meruelous, yet Christ in protecting his Church, is more meruelous.
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Articles of faith are not euidently apparent to knovvlege, but euident to credibilitie, to those that are disposed by Gods grace, illuminating their vnderstanding, and mouing their free vvil, to geue consent of beleefe if they vvil
It behoueth therfore al members of the Church to conuerse piously, and religiously in this life, seing she hath so excellent a spouse, protector, and instructor,
euen to the end of the vvorld.
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St Gregory of Nazianzus † AD 389 Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen 45
… And it is in respect of this too that God saith in an oracle to Job, “Nay, but gird up thy loins like a man, and give a manly answer.” With this also holy David boasts that he is girded with strength from God, and speaks of God Himself as clothed with strength
St Ambrose of Milan † AD 397 On the Duties of the Clergy 1.45
230. In our writings this is put somewhat more plainly. For David says: “The Lord reigneth, He is clothed with splendour.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist 2.104
… living God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth, dispersed throughout the world, on account of the gospel which was preached, according to the words of the apostle, "to every creature which is under heaven:" as representing the whole world, of which David, whose words you cannot understand, has said, "The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved;"
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 93.2
2. “The Lord reigneth, He is clothed with beauty; the Lord is clothed with strength, and is girded” (
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St Cyril of Jerusalem † AD 386 The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril 14
… And this throne the Prophet Esaias having beheld before the incarnate coming of the Saviour, says, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up , and the rest. For the Father no man hath seen at any time , and He who then appeared to the Prophet was the Son. The Psalmist also says, Thy throne is prepared of old; Thou art from everlasting
Rufinus of Aquileia † AD 411 A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed 32
… For it does not befit that incorporeal nature without the assumption of flesh; neither is the excellency of a heavenly seat sought for the divine nature, but for the human. Whence it is said of Him, “Thy seat, O God, is prepared from thence forward; Thou art from everlasting.”
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 93.5
5. “Thy throne is established from thence, O Lord” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 93.6
… the vessel is the Church: the sea, the world. The Lord came, He walked over the sea, and calmed the waves. How did the Lord walk over the sea? Above the heads of those mighty foaming waves. Principalities and kings believed; they were subdued unto Christ. Let us not therefore be frightened; because “the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.”
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 93.6
… but they on hearing lifted up their voices with one accord unto the Lord, and said, “Lord, it is Thou who hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is;” and the rest which floods lifting up their voices might say, “Wonderful are the hangings of the sea” (
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St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 On Christian Doctrine 4.26
… and therefore we would be listened to, not with intelligence merely, but with pleasure as well. Again, why do we enforce what we teach by divine testimony, except that we wish to carry the hearer with us, that is, to com pel his assent by calling in the assistance of Him of whom it is said, “Thy testimonies are very sure”?
St Augustine of Hippo † AD 430 Expositions on the Book of Psalms 93.7
7. “Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very surely believed” (
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v. 1 Domini creatoris et regis mundi maiestas describi; qui ex mundo adspectabih apparet et cognoscitur gloria et fortitudine quod de terra dieitur, stabilem eius indicat firmitatem ; nullatenus autem illam ex perturbatione ad quietem et ordinem esse reductam. neque ad ipsa primordia formationis terrae esse ascendendum, quando: aquis tumentibus certi assignabantur fines (103, 6-9). Sed puto in hoe psalmo, sicuf in 8, ex rebus creatis, et ex ns quae nobis apparent magnifica et mirabilia, nobis proponi viam ad Dei gloriam et maiestatem, eum admiratione suspiciendam. Et talis scena, qua cuiusvis sensus animusque mire afficitur, delectatur, in. admirationem rapitur, nobis exhibetur in sono, strepitu ac fremitu fluminum, in fragore undarum maris, in aestu et fervore fluctuum maris :
patientes erunt. lusti igitur vita sua longa et felici a Deo donantur, uf hac ipsa sua sorte annuntient, quia rectus, iustus, lahve, petra mea, et non est perversio, iniustitia in eo. ᾿ τς Dominus regnavit, decorem indutus est ; | indutus est Dominus fortitudinem JA Dominus regnum capessivit, se regem demonstravit; ut talis gloria explicant eius loci 1mpletionem praedicari ; Dominum 1udicio suo terram, quae perturbatione inquieta et instabilis facta erat, iterum stabilem fecisse et fluminibus et mari, gentibus contra eum tumultuantibus, illud opposursse : usque huc venies et non amplius procedes, et certum est fluminibus et mari v. 3.4 exhiberi gentes rebelles. Potius videtur
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v. 3 elevaverunt flumina vocem suam ; levaverunt flumina gurgites suos (Hier), fremitum suum, fragorem suum, dum scil. undae magno impetu inter se alliduntur. Illud à vocibus aquarum multarum, hebr v5 explicari debet compara-. üone facta : magis quam fremitus aquarum et mirabiles elationes maris, mirabilis est in altis Dominus ; unde sensus enascitur planus ; mirabilior est Dominus. Facilem textus hebr emendationem proposuit Zenner ; scribit pro אדורים separatione facta אדיר ים et addit Ὁ ad ΣΦ, tum habetur sensus praeclarus: plus quam fremitus aquarum mirabile est mare ; plus quam maris aestus mirabilis in excelso est Iahve (cf. Zeitschrift für kath. Theologie, Innsbruck 1893, p. 173). Huius Dei aeterni, excelsi festimonia, testificationes et manifestationes suae voluntatis, mandata, promissiones, minae, credibilia facta sunt nimis, Hier fideha facta sunt; talia sunt quibus certissime fidi potest et debet (18,9 ; 24,10) ; domum tuam, templum, decet sanctitas, ei debetur sanctitas ; templum ut Deo consecratum, ergo ab usu profano separatum et ad Deum pertinens, eo ipso iam est sanctum ; unde ei debetur, ut tamquam sanctum ab omnibus habeatur, ut omne immundum ab eo arceatur, ut cum debita reverentia et munditie omnes in eo versentur. Ex Dei magnitudine excelsa redundat sacra quaedam dignitas im templum, idque in longitudinem dierum, in perpetuum, quamdiu est domus Dei ; templum nullo unquam tempore est violandum ; habet enim promissionem : sanctificavi domum hane, ut ponerem nomen meum ibi in sempiternum et erunt oculi mei et cor meum ibi cunctis diebus /3 Reg. 9,3).
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