Psalms 15:3
To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sanctis qui sunt in terra ejus, mirificavit omnes voluntates meas in eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοῖς ἁγίοις τοῖς ἐν τῇ γῇ αὐτοῦ ἐθαυμάστωσεν πάντα τὰ θελήματα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτοῖς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 16:3
- לִ֭קְדוֹשִׁים אֲשֶׁר בָּאָ֣רֶץ הֵ֑מָּה וְ֝אַדִּירֵ֗י כָּל חֶפְצִי בָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Saints. Hebrew, "the magnificent" priests, God himself, (Exodus xv. 11.; Calmet) and ceremonies of religion, (Haydock) for which David had a wonderful affection. (Calmet)
But Christ has displayed the greatest love towards all his converts, and they had need of it. (Berthier)
God here speaks, shewing that Christ should make known his wonderful charity to the apostles and other saints.
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 A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants, By the Sacrifices of the Old Testament, Men Were Convinced of Sins and Led to the Saviour
And yet it is perhaps better to advance a few testimonies out of the Old Testament also, which ought to have a supplementary, or rather a cumulative value. The Lord Himself, speaking by the Psalmist, says: “As for my saints which are upon earth, He hath caused all my purposes to be admired in them.” Not their merits , but “ my purposes. ” For what is theirs except that which is afterwards mentioned, “their weaknesses are multiplied,”, above the weakness that they had? Moreover, the law also entered, that the offence might abound. But why does the Psalmist immediately add: “They hastened after?” When their sorrows and infirmities multiplied (that is, when their offence abounded), they then sought the Physician more eagerly, in order that, where sin abounded, grace might much more abound. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XVI
3. “To the saints who are on His earth” ( ver. 3 ): to the saints who have placed their hope in the land of the living, the citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, whose spiritual conversation is, by the anchor of hope, fixed in that country, which is rightly called God’s earth; although as yet in this earth too they be conversant in the flesh. “He hath wonderfully fulfilled all My wishes in them.” To those saints then He hath wonderfully fulfilled all My wishes in their advancement, whereby they have perceived, how both the humanity of My divinity hath profited them that I might die, and the divinity of the humanity that I might rise again.
St Athanasius Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life, For 329. Easter-day xi Pharmuthi; viii Id. April; Ær. Dioclet. 45; Coss. Constantinus Aug. VIII. Constantinus Cæs. IV; Præfect. Septimius Zenius; Indict. II
4. For since, as I before said, there are divers proclamations, listen, as in a figure, to the prophet blowing the trumpet; and further, having turned to the truth, be ready for the announcement of the trumpet, for he saith, ‘Blow ye the trumpet in Sion: sanctify a fast.’ This is a warning trumpet, and commands with great earnestness, that when we fast, we should hallow the fast. For not all those who call upon God, hallow God, since there are some who defile Him; yet not Him, that is impossible, but their own mind concerning Him; for He is holy, and has pleasure in the saints. …