Genesis 50:19
And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quibus ille respondit : Nolite timere : num Dei possumus resistere voluntati ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Ἰωσήφ Μὴ φοβεῖσθε, τοῦ γὰρ θεοῦ ἐγὼ εἰμί·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֧אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֛ם יוֹסֵ֖ף אַל תִּירָ֑אוּ כִּ֛י הֲתַ֥חַת אֱלֹהִ֖ים אָֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Resist, &c. Hebrew, "Am I not subject to God; or, Am I a God," to oppose his will. Septuagint, "I belong to the Lord." You see that your designs against me have turned to our mutual advantage. Can I, therefore, think of punishing you? Repent, and obtain pardon of God: I certainly forgive you. (Haydock)
Thus God drew good out of the evil, in which he had no share. (St. Augustine, City of God xiv. 27; St. Chrysostom, hom. 67.)
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 John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII, Chapter XI. Whether the grace of God precedes or follows our good will
And so these are somehow mixed up and indiscriminately confused, so that among many persons, which depends on the other is involved in great questionings, i.e., does God have compassion upon us because we have shown the beginning of a good will, or does the beginning of a good will follow because God has had compassion upon us? For many believing each of these and asserting them more widely than is right are entangled in all kinds of opposite errors. …