Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar: and called the name thereof, The Lord my exaltation, saying:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ædificavitque Moyses altare : et vocavit nomen ejus, Dominus exaltatio mea, dicens :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν Μωσῆς θυσιαστήριον Κυρίῳ, καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Κύριος καταφυγή μου·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּ֥בֶן מֹשֶׁ֖ה מִזְבֵּ֑חַ וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ יְהוָ֥ה נִסִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
Exaltation. He has given me the victory. He has supported my hands on high, holding the rod as a standard. (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 On the Holy Trinity, They are Proud Who Think They are Able, by Their Own Righteousness, to Be Cleansed So as to See God
20. There are, however, some who think themselves capable of being cleansed by their own righteousness, so as to contemplate God, and to dwell in God; whom their very pride itself stains above all others. For there is no sin to which the divine law is more opposed, and over which that proudest of spirits, who is a mediator to things below, but a barrier against things above, receives a greater right of mastery: unless either his secret snares be avoided by going another way, or if he rage openly by means of a sinful people (which Amalek, being interpreted, means), and forbid by fighting the passage to the land of promise, he be overcome by the cross of the Lord, which is prefigured by the holding out of the hands of Moses. …