Psalms 17:32
For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam quis deus præter Dominum ? aut quis deus præter Deum nostrum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι τίς θεὸς πλὴν τοῦ κυρίου; καὶ τίς θεὸς πλὴν τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 18:32
- כִּ֤י מִ֣י אֱ֭לוֹהַּ מִבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וּמִ֥י צ֝֗וּר זוּלָתִ֥י אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ
Haydock's commentary
Our God. Will any one then hinder Him from doing as He has said? (Haydock)
Hebrew, "Who is the rock but our God?" (Berthier)
God is often styled a rock, tsur. Yet St. Jerome and Pagnin render it "strong," or "the strong one." (Haydock)
There is only one Lord and Saviour of all. (Worthington)
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 Book I, Chapter IV
4. What, then, art Thou, O my God, what, I ask, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most high, most excellent, most potent, most omnipotent; most piteous and most just; most hidden and most near; most beauteous and most strong, stable, yet contained of none; unchangeable, yet changing all things; never new, never old; making all things new, yet bringing old age upon the proud and they know it not; always working, yet ever at rest; gathering, yet needing nothing; sustaining, pervading, and protecting; creating, nourishing, and developing; seeking, and yet possessing all things. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XVIII
32. “For who is God, but the Lord?” ( ver. 31 ) whom we serve. “And who God, but our God?” And who is God, but the Lord? whom after good service we sons shall possess as the hoped-for inheritance.
Eusebius The Church History of Eusebius, The Course pursued by the Apostles after the Ascension of Christ
13. But as the preaching of the Saviour’s Gospel was daily advancing, a certain providence led from the land of the Ethiopians an officer of the queen of that country, for Ethiopia even to the present day is ruled, according to ancestral custom, by a woman. He, first among the Gentiles, received of the mysteries of the divine word from Philip in consequence of a revelation, and having become the first-fruits of believers throughout the world, he is said to have been the first on returning to his country to proclaim the knowledge of the God of the universe and the life-giving sojourn of our Saviour among men; so that through him in truth the prophecy obtained its fulfillment, which declares that “Ethiopia stretcheth out her hand unto God.”