Psalms 118:63
I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Particeps ego sum omnium timentium te, et custodientium mandata tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μέτοχος ἐγώ εἰμι πάντων τῶν φοβουμένων σε καὶ φυλασσόντων τὰς ἐντολάς σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:63
- חָבֵ֣ר אָ֭נִי לְכָל אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְרֵא֑וּךָ וּ֝לְשֹׁמְרֵ֗י פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Partaker. Hebrew, "a friend." I do not fear to approve of their conduct, (Calmet) and condole with them. (St. Hilary)
The true living members of Christ enjoy the great benefit of partaking in the prayers and good works of the whole Church militant and triumphant, in the communion of saints. (Worthington)
See St. Augustine, Confessions iv. 4.
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, Cheth
61. For I imagine that what followeth, “I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and keep Thy commandments” ( ver. 63 ), doth relate to the Head Himself, as it is in the Epistle which is inscribed to the Hebrews: “Both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren.”…Therefore Jesus Himself speaketh in this prophecy: some things in His Members and in the Unity of His Body, as if in one man diffused over the whole world, and growing up in succession throughout the roll of ages: and some things in Himself our Head. And on this account, that since He became the companion of His brethren, God of men, the Immortal of the mortal, for this reason the seed fell upon the earth, that by its death it might produce much fruit; he next addeth concerning this very fruit, “The earth, O Lord, is full of Thy mercy” ( ver. 64 ). …