Psalms 104:11
Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dicens : Tibi dabo terram Chanaan, funiculum hæreditatis vestræ :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λέγων Σοὶ δώσω τὴν γῆν Χανάαν, σχοίνισμα κληρονομίας ὑμῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:11
- לֵאמֹ֗ר לְךָ֗ אֶתֵּ֥ן אֶת אֶֽרֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן חֶ֝֗בֶל נַחֲלַתְכֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Lot. Literally, "line," with which land was measured. (Calmet), The descendants of the patriarchs would never have lost this inheritance if they had observed the law. The promise was therefore conditional; though it was absolute, in as much as all were to be blessed in their seed: as they had begun to be, when Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus.
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 Methodius The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity, Chapter IV
Now they offered, in Leviticus, oil of this kind, “pure oil olive, beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually, without the veil…before the Lord.” But they were commanded to have a feeble light from the evening to the morning. For their light seemed to resemble the prophetic word, which gives encouragement to temperance, being nourished by the acts and the faith of the people. But the temple (in which the light was kept burning) refers to “the lot of their inheritance,” inasmuch as a light can shine in only one house. Therefore it was necessary that it should be lighted before day. For he says, “ they shall burn it until the morning,” that is, until the coming of Christ. But the Sun of chastity and of righteousness having arisen, there is no need of other light.
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CV
6. “He hath been alway mindful of His covenant” ( ver. 8 ). Other copies read, “for evermore;” and this arises from the ambiguity of the Greek. But if we are to understand “alway” of this world and not of eternity, why, when he explaineth what covenant He was mindful of, doth he add, “The word that He made to a thousand generations”? Now this may be understood with a certain limitation; but he afterwards saith, “Even the covenant that He made with Abraham” ( ver. 9 ): “and the oath that He sware unto Isaac; and appointed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament” ( ver. 10 ). But if in this passage the Old Testament is to be understood, on account of the land of Canaan; for thus the language of the Psalm runneth, “saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance” ( ver. …