Ecclesiasticus 39:25
He seeth from eternity to eternity, and there is nothing wonderful before him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- A sæculo usque in sæculum respicit, et nihil est mirabile in conspectu ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Wonderful, or new. (Calmet)
The greatest miracles cost him nothing. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness, The Fourth Passage. In What Sense God Only is Good. With God to Be Good and to Be Himself are the Same Thing
“They likewise,” says he, “quote what the Saviour says: ‘Why callest thou me good? There is none good save one, that is, God?’” This statement, however, he makes no attempt whatever to explain; all he does is to oppose to it sundry other passages which seem to contradict it, which he adduces to show that man, too, is good. Here are his remarks: “We must answer this text with another, in which the same Lord says, ‘A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things.’ And again: ‘He maketh His sun to rise on the good and on the evil.’ Then in another passage it is written, ‘For the good things are created from the beginning;’ and yet again, ‘They that are good shall dwell in the land.’” Now to all this we must say in answer, that the passages in question must be understood in the same sense as the former one, “There is none good, save one, that is, God.” Either beca …