Psalms 135:7
Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui fecit luminaria magna, quoniam in æternum misericordia ejus :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τῷ ποιήσαντι φῶτα μεγάλα μόνῳ, ὅτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 136:7
- לְ֭עֹשֵׂה אוֹרִ֣ים גְּדֹלִ֑ים כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Lights. The stars, (St. Jerome) or the sun and moon, ver. 8., and Genesis i. 16. (Calmet)
All are great lights, though the moon be comparatively small. (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, Psalm CXXXVI
5. But what meaneth, “who alone doeth great wonders”? Is it because many wonderful things He hath done by means of angels and men? Some wonderful things there are which God doeth alone, and these he enumerates, saying, “who by His wisdom made the heavens” ( ver. 5 ), “who stretched out the earth above the waters” ( ver. 6 ), “who alone made great lights” ( ver. 7 ). For this reason did he add “alone” in this verse also, because the other wonders which he is about to tell of, God did by means of man. For having said, “who alone made great lights,” he goes on to explain what these are, “the sun to rule the day” ( ver. 8 ), “the moon and stars to govern the night” ( ver. 9 ); then he begins to tell the wonders which He did by means of angels and men: “who smote Egypt with their first-born” ( ver. 10 ), and the rest. …