Psalms 17:24
And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ero immaculatus cum eo ; et observabo me ab iniquitate mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσομαι ἄμωμος μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ φυλάξομαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀνομίας μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 18:24
- וָאֱהִ֣י תָמִ֣ים עִמּ֑וֹ וָ֝אֶשְׁתַּמֵּ֗ר מֵעֲוֺנִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Him, by his grace. (Worthington)
Iniquity, and be careful not to relapse. Others explain it in the past time. I have not shed the blood of my enemy when I could have done it, 1 Kings xxiv. 6, 14. (Calmet)
Fui immaculatus. (St. Jerome) (Haydock) It seems most probable that David composed this before his fall, as Aberbanel, one of the most learned of the Jews, asserts. If he be only a figure of Jesus Christ, we may easily conceive how the latter might speak thus of his innocence, and declare his abhorrence of all sin, though he was made a sin-offering, having undertaken to expiate the iniquities of mankind. (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 A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness, Who May Be Said to Walk Without Spot; Damnable and Venial Sins
Having premised these remarks, let us carefully attend to the passages which he whom we are answering has produced, as if we ourselves had quoted them. “In Deuteronomy, ‘Thou shalt be perfect before the Lord thy God.’ Again, in the same book, ‘There shall be not an imperfect man among the sons of Israel.’ In like manner the Saviour says in the Gospel, Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ So the apostle, in his second Epistle to the Corinthians, says: ‘Finally, brethren, farewell. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XVIII
24. “And I shall be undefiled with Him, and I shall keep Myself from Mine iniquity” ( ver. 23 ).