Psalms 118:35
Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deduc me in semitam mandatorum tuorum, quia ipsam volui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁδήγησόν με ἐν τρίβῳ τῶν ἐντολῶν σου, ὅτι αὐτὸν ἠθέλησα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:35
- הַ֭דְרִיכֵנִי בִּנְתִ֣יב מִצְוֺתֶ֑יךָ כִּי ב֥וֹ חָפָֽצְתִּי
Haydock's commentary
Desired. Free-will concurs with grace. (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, He
35. But since he hath no power to do even this, save he be aided by Him who commandeth him to do what He commandeth, “Make me,” he addeth, “to go in the path of Thy commandments, for therein is my desire” ( ver. 35 ). My desire is powerless, unless Thou Thyself makest me to go where I desire. And this is surely the very path, that is, the path of God’s commandments, which he had already said that he had run, when his heart was enlarged by the Lord. And this he calleth a “path,” because “the way is narrow which leadeth unto life;” and since it is narrow, we cannot run therein save with a heart enlarged.…