Psalms 125:3
The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum ; facti sumus lætantes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμεγάλυνεν Κύριος τοῦ ποιῆσαι μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν, ἐγενήθημεν εὐφραινόμενοι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 126:3
- הִגְדִּ֣יל יְ֭הוָה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עִמָּ֗נוּ הָיִ֥ינוּ שְׂמֵחִֽים
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXXVI
6. “Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us already, whereof we rejoice” ( ver. 3 ). Consider, my brethren, if Sion doth not at present say this among the heathen, throughout the whole world; consider if men are not running unto the Church. In the whole world our redemption is received; Amen is answered. The dwellers in Jerusalem, therefore, captive, destined to return, pilgrims, sighing for their country, speak thus among the heathen. What do they say? “The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we rejoice.” Have they done anything for themselves? They have done ill with themselves, for they have sold themselves under sin. The Redeemer came, and did the good things for them.
St Gregory of Nyssa Against Eunomius, He further shows that the pretemporal generation of the Son is not the subject of influences drawn from ordinary and carnal generation, but is without beginning and without end, and not according to the fabrications constructed by Eunomius, in ignorance of His power, from the statements of Plato concerning the soul and from the sabbath rest of the Hebrews
It is not allowable for the same person to set nothing above the existence of the Only-begotten, and to say that before His generation He was not, but that He was generated then when the Father willed. For “ then ” and “ when ” have a sense which specially and properly refers to the denoting of time, according to the common use of men who speak soundly, and according to their signification in Scripture. One may take “ then shall they say among the heathen,” and “ when I sent you” and “ then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened,” and countless similar phrases through the whole of Scripture, to prove this point, that the ordinary Scriptural use employs these parts of speech to denote time. If therefore, as our opponent allows, time was not, the signifying of time surely disappears too: and if this did not exist, it will necessarily be replaced by eternity in our conception. …