3 Kings 8:57
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and not leave us, nor cast us off:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sit Dominus Deus noster nobiscum, sicut fuit cum patribus nostris, non derelinquens nos, neque projiciens.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- γένοιτο Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν καθὼς ἦν μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν· μὴ ἐγκαταλίποιτο ἡμᾶς μηδὲ ἀποστρέψοιτο ἡμᾶς,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יְהִ֨י יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֨ינוּ֙ עִמָּ֔נוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה עִם אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ אַל יַעַזְבֵ֖נוּ וְאַֽל יִטְּשֵֽׁנוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints, Old Testament Testimonies
Therefore also it is in vain that objectors have alleged, that what we have proved by Scripture testimony from the books of Kings and Chronicles is not pertinent to the subject of which we are discoursing: such, for instance, as that when God wills that to be done which ought only to be done by the willing men, their hearts are inclined to will this, inclined, that is to say, by His power, who, in a marvellous and ineffable manner, worketh in us also to will. What else is this than to say nothing, and yet to contradict? Unless perchance, they have given some reason to you for the view that they have taken, which reason you have preferred to say nothing about in your letters. But what that reason can be I do not know. …