God absolutly most excellent is to be praised, 3. with al sortes of instruments, and by al other meanes.
1Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.Alleluia. Lodate Dio. Lodate il Signore nel suo santuario: lodatelo nel fortissimo suo firmamento.Alleluia. PRAYSE ye our Lord in his holies: prayse ye him in the firmament of his strength.Alleluja. Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus; / laudate eum in firmamento virtutis ejus. 2Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness.Lodatelo per le opere sue: lodatelo secondo la sua molta grandezza.Prayse ye him in his powers: prayse ye him according to the multitude of his greatnes.Laudate eum in virtutibus ejus; / laudate eum secundum multitudinem magnitudinis ejus. 3Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.Lodatelo al suon della tromba: lodatelo sul saltero, e sulla cetra.Prayse ye him in the sound of trumpet: prayse ye him on psalter, and harpe.Laudate eum in sono tubæ; / laudate eum in psalterio et cithara. 4Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.Lodatelo al suon del timpano, e del flauto: lodatelo sugli strumenti a corda, e a fiato.Prayse ye him on timbrel and quire: prayse ye him on stringes, and organ.Laudate eum in tympano et choro; / laudate eum in chordis et organo. 5Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.Lodatelo co' sonori cimbali: lodatelo co' cimbali di lieta armonia:Prayse ye him on wel sounding cymbals: prayse ye him on cymbales of iubilation:Laudate eum in cymbalis benesonantibus; / laudate eum in cymbalis jubilationis. 6ogni spirito dia laude al Signore. Lodate il Signore.let euerie spirit prayse our Lord. Alleluia.Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum ! / Alleluja.
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Alleluia. This invitation is addressed to the sacred ministers, as the people and all creatures had been already exhorted to praise God. (Calmet)
Selden
This psalm was sung when the first-fruits were brought to the temple. (Selden, Syn. 3.)
Haydock
The Lord. Hebrew el, "God." (Haydock)
Calmet
Places. Hebrew, "his sanctuary," (Haydock) or heaven. (Calmet)
All both in heaven and earth sound forth his praises.
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Worthington
Acts. Ye, for whom miracles have been wrought, praise him as much as you are able, though you cannot do it sufficiently. (Worthington)
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Calmet
Trumpet. This instrument was reserved for priests, Numbers 10:2. The nine others might be used by Levites. (Calmet)
Berthier
The precise signification of them is not known. (Berthier)
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Worthington
Choir....Strings. Unity and mortification are requisite to make our praises acceptable, as strings are made of the bowels of beasts. (Worthington)
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Worthington
Spirit. Wind instrument, (Menochius) or man, who is bound to praise God, even more than the angels, as Christ has assumed his nature, and will bring him to sing with them Alleluia. (Worthington)
Haydock
Let "all that breathes" praise, (Berthier) including every living creature, (Calmet) as well as the celestial spirits. (Haydock)
Calmet
Alleluia is not in Septuagint, Syriac, etc. But it is in the Hebrew, and no word could answer better for a conclusion of the psalms, which are almost wholly employed in the divine praises. This ought to be our occupation both on earth, and in heaven. Amen. (Calmet)
Worthington
Pope Damasus, A.D. 380, ordered the Glory, etc., to be added to each of the psalms, as it has been since observed. (Worthington)
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THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
This Book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom and virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because great truths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.
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S. Augustin in the conclusion of his Enarrations, or Sermons vpon the Psalmes, The number of Psalmes signifieth the agrement of the old and nevv • estament. explicateth a mysterie in the number of an hundred and fieftie. signifying the concord of the two Testaments. For in the old testament they kept the Sabbath, which is the seuenth day: in the new we kepe our Lords day, after the sabbath, that is, the eight: which seuen and eight: (making fieftene) multiplied by tenne, signifying the Law of tenne commandments, rise vnto 150.
Againe euen multiplied by seuen make 49. wherto one (to witte the eight) being added make fieftie, which multiplied by three. signifying the B Trinitie, make 150 Neither semed it without cause to this great Doctor, that the fi••• Three fifeties sign ••• P⸢e⸣na⸢n⸣ce. Mercie vvith ⸢i⸣ustice, and Praises of God. fieftie end with a Psalme of Paenance, crauing mercie & remission of sinnes: the second with Mercie and Iustice, which God ioyneth in the Redemption, Iustification, and Saluation of men: the last with Diuine Praises, signifying, that by condemning sinnes in our selues, through Gods mercie we may be iustified, and so beginne in this life, which is to be perfected in the next, to praise our Lord, as S. Paul admonisheth with Psalmes, Hymnes, and Spiritual Songues. Concluding 〈◊〉 •. 〈◊〉 An. D•. 380. with the tvvo verses, appointed by S Dama us Pope, to be added in the end of al Psalmes, and is obserued euer since his time by tradition in the Gloria Patri: added by tradition. vvhole Church:
Glorie to the Father, and to the Sonne, and to the Holie Ghost: As it was in the beginning, and now, and euer, into worldes of worldes [in eternitie vvithout end]
Al ye Angels and men that are in the holie and highest heauen praise our Lord.
Al ye creatures that are in, and vnder the first moueable firmament praise our Lord.
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And you especially (Gods peculiar people) amongst whom, and for whom, diuine miracles haue bene wrought praise our Lord,
with al your possible endeuoure, for though his infinite Excellencie excedeth the powre of al creatures to praise him sufficiently, yet it resteth that you may infinitly extend your wil and desire to praise our Lord, according to the multitude of his greatnes.
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Out of this your great and infinite desire, let your tongues sound and sing diuine praises, as wel vvith voice, as musical instruments.
VVherof six most vsual in the Tabernacle and Temple vvere these: Trumpet, Psalter, Harpe, Timbrel, Organ and Cymbal.
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By the vvay the Psalmist interposeth agane tvvo especial thinges, vvhich make perfect harmonie, vvithout vvhich no instrument is gratful to God: Vnitie amongst his seruants, signified by the Quire of consonant voices:
and mortification of passions, signified by Stringes, vvhich are made of dead beastes bovvels.
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Man created of corruptible bodie and immortal soule, is finally admonished to praise our Lord, ouer and aboue the praises of al other corporal creatures; vvho also is more especially bond therto then Angels, because God hath voutsaffed to make himselfe Man, to redeme man that vvas lost by sinne, and to endew him vvith nevv grace, and so bring him to euerlasting glorie, vvhere vvith holie Angels, men also for euer & euer shal praise our Lord, vvith hart, voice, and iubilation of spirite, singing as the Psalmist concludeth, Alleluia.
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sant'Ignazio di Antiochia † 108 d.C. Epistle from Maria of Cassobelæ 4
… David, too, who was at once a prophet and a king, and the root of our Saviour according to the flesh, while yet a youth is anointed by Samuel to be king. For he himself says in a certain place, “I was small among my brethren, and the youngest in the house of my father.”
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 150.4
4. “Praise the Lord in His saints,” that is, in those whom He hath glorified: “praise Him in the firmament of His power” (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 150.4
4. “Praise the Lord in His saints,” that is, in those whom He hath glorified: “praise Him in the firmament of His power” ( ver. 1 ). “Praise Him in His deeds of strength;” or, as others have explained it, “in His deeds of power: praise Him according to the multitude of His greatness” (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 150.5
5. “Praise Him in the sound of the trumpet” (
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Tertulliano † 220 d.C. On Baptism 8
… Shall it be granted possible for human ingenuity to summon a spirit into water, and, by the application of hands from above, to animate their union into one body with another spirit of so clear sound; and shall it not be possible for God, in the case of His own organ,
sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 150.5
… I mean, from things in heaven, and things in earth, as He who made heaven and earth. We have already in another Psalm, explained that the psaltery hath that board, whereon the series of strings rests that it may give a better sound, above, whereas the harp has it below. “Praise Him in the timbrel and choir” (
papa san Gregorio I Magno † 604 d.C. The Book of Pastoral Rule 3.22
… as it may be if one who subdues the flesh more than others by bridling of his appetite should scorn to be in concord with those whom he surpasses in abstinence. But whoso separates abstinence from concord, let him consider the admonition of the Psalmist, Praise him with timbrel and chorus (
papa san Gregorio I Magno † 604 d.C. Register of the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great 7.32
… Shew, then, now how much you loved before. For I know that both of you are abstinent, both learned, both humble; whence the glory of our Saviour must needs be praised, according to the language of the Psalm, in timbrel and chorus (
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sant'Agostino d'Ippona † 430 d.C. Expositions on the Book of Psalms 150.6
6. “Praise Him on the well-sounding cymbals, praise Him on cymbals of jubilation” (
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