Psalms 104:6
O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- semen Abraham servi ejus ; filii Jacob electi ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σπέρμα Ἀβραὰμ δοῦλοι αὐτοῦ, υἱοὶ Ἰακὼβ ἐκλεκτοὶ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 105:6
- זֶ֭רַע אַבְרָהָ֣ם עַבְדּ֑וֹ בְּנֵ֖י יַעֲקֹ֣ב בְּחִירָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
His servant. Or "servants." (Septuagint) Vulgate is ambiguous. Hebrew declared for servant here; but, his chosen, is certainly plural, and refers to all the people, and [in] 1 Paralipomenon xvi. 13., we read, seed of Israel, his servants. (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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CV
5. Unto whom is it said, “O ye seed of Abraham His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen”? ( ver. 6 ).…He next addeth, “He is the Lord our God: His judgments are in all the world” ( ver. 7 ). Is He the God of the Jews only? God forbid! “He is the Lord our God:” because the Church, where His judgments are preached, is in all the world.…
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).