Psalms 121:8
For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propter fratres meos et proximos meos, loquebar pacem de te.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἕνεκα τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου καὶ τῶν πλησίον μου. ἐλάλουν δὲ εἰρήνην περὶ σοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 122:8
- לְ֭מַעַן אַחַ֣י וְרֵעָ֑י אֲדַבְּרָה נָּ֖א שָׁל֣וֹם בָּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
I. Hebrew adds, "I will now;" (Montanus) or rather, "I have now spoken." (Berthier)
I was forbidden to beg for the peace of Chanaan, Deuteronomy vii. 3. But Jeremias (xxix. 7.) exhorts the captives to desire this blessing for the city, to which they were going, as it would redound to their own advantage. (Calmet)
Christ leaves his peace to his apostles, and to their successors; and in heaven, all good thing are prepared for the elect. (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, Psalm CXXII
13. Thus as he was here speaking of charity, he addeth, “For my brethren and companions’ sake, I spoke peace of thee” ( ver. 8 ). O Jerusalem, thou city whose partaking is in The Same, I in this life and on this earth, I poor, he saith, I a stranger and groaning, not as yet enjoying to the full thy peace, and preaching thy peace; preach it not for my own sake, as the heretics, who seeking their own glory, say, Peace be with you: and have not the peace which they preach to the people. For if they had peace, they would not tear asunder unity. …