Psalms 103:5
Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui fundasti terram super stabilitatem suam : non inclinabitur in sæculum sæculi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐθεμελίωσεν τὴν γῆν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀσφαλίαν αὐτῆς, οὐ κλιθήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 104:5
- יָֽסַד אֶ֭רֶץ עַל מְכוֹנֶ֑יהָ בַּל תִּ֝מּ֗וֹט עוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד
Haydock's commentary
Ever. The established order shall subsist, though the earth may move, Psalm ci. 27. (Berthier)
It is fixed by its own gravity in the centre. (Worthington)
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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CIV
4. “He hath founded the earth upon its firmness” ( ver. 5 ). He hath founded the Church upon the firmness of the Church. What is the firmness of the Church, but the foundation of the Church. What is the foundation of the Church, but that of which the Apostle saith, “Other foundation can no man lay but that is laid, which is Christ Jesus.” And therefore, grounded on such a foundation, what hath she deserved to hear? “It shall not be bowed forever and ever.” “He founded the earth on its firmness.” That is, He hath founded the Church upon Christ the foundation. …
St Ambrose Concerning Repentance, Chapter II. A passage quoted by the heretics against repentance is explained in two ways, the first being that Heb. vi. 4 refers to the impossibility of being baptized again; the second, that what is impossible with man is possible with God
8. And that the writer was speaking of baptism is evident from the very words in which it is stated that it is impossible to renew unto repentance those who were fallen, inasmuch as we are renewed by means of the laver of baptism, whereby we are born again, as Paul says himself: “For we are buried with Him through baptism into death, that, like as Christ rose from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we, too, should walk in newness of life.” And in another place: “Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man which is created after God.” And elsewhere again: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle,” because the eagle after death is born again from its ashes, as we being dead in sin are through the Sacrament of Baptism born again to God, and created anew. So, then, here as elsewhere, he teaches one baptism. “One faith,” he says, “one baptism.”