Psalms 118:113
I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Samech Iniquos odio habui, et legem tuam dilexi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Παρανόμους ἐμίσησα, καὶ τὸν νόμον σου ἠγάπησα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:113
- סֵעֲפִ֥ים שָׂנֵ֑אתִי וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ אָהָֽבְתִּי
Haydock's commentary
Unjust. Inasmuch as they oppose thy law. (Berthier)
So Christ orders us to hate our parents, when they are an obstacle to our salvation. We must love their persons and welfare, (St. Augustine) but hate their iniquity. (Worthington)
Hebrew, "the turbulent." St. Jerome, "vain thoughts," and inconstant men. The meaning of sehaphim is not well ascertained. (Calmet)
But the psalmist might have all these senses (Haydock) in view, as they are all good; and hence we may admire the copiousness of the Hebrew language. (Berthier)
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, Samech
112. “I have hated the unrighteous; and Thy law have I loved” ( ver. 113 ). He saith not, I hate the wicked, and love the righteous; or, I hate iniquity, and love Thy law; but, after saying, “I have hated the unrighteous,” he explains why, by adding, “and Thy law have I loved;” to show, that he did not hate human nature in unrighteous men, but their unrighteousness whereby they are foes to the law, which he loveth.