Psalms 17:15
And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et misit sagittas suas, et dissipavit eos ; fulgura multiplicavit, et conturbavit eos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν βέλη καὶ ἐσκόρπισεν αὐτούς, καὶ ἀστραπὰς ἐπλήθυνεν καὶ συνετάραξεν αὐτούς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 18:15
- וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח חִ֭צָּיו וַיְפִיצֵ֑ם וּבְרָקִ֥ים רָ֝ב וַיְהֻמֵּֽם
Haydock's commentary
Arrows. Thunderbolts. Tela reponuntur manibus fabricata Cyclopum. (Metam. Hesiod Theog. 708.)
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 XVIII
15. “And He sent out His arrows, and scattered them” ( ver. 14 ). And He sent out Evangelists traversing straight paths on the wings of strength, not in their own power, but His by whom they were sent. And “He scattered them,” to whom they were sent, that to some of them they should be “the savour of life unto life, to others the savour of death unto death.” “And He multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.” And He multiplied miracles, and troubled them.
St Ambrose Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II. The incidents properly affecting the body which Christ for our sake took upon Him are not to be accounted to His Godhead, in respect whereof He is the Most Highest. To deny which is to say that the Father was incarnate. When we read that God is one, and that there is none other beside Him, or that He alone has immortality, this must be understood as true of Christ also, not only to avoid the sinful heresy above-mentioned (Patripassianism), but also because the activity of the Father and the Son is declared to be one and the same
9. Who indeed can deny that we have plain evidence that Christ is the Most High? He who knows otherwise makes the sacrament of Incarnation to be the work of God the Father. But that Christ is the Most High is removed beyond doubt by what Scripture hath said in another place, concerning the mystery of the Passion: “The Most High sent forth His Voice, and the earth was shaken.” And in the Gospel you may read: “And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare His ways.” Who is “the Highest”? The Son of God. He, then, Who is the Most High God is Christ.