Psalms 21:11
I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In te projectus sum ex utero ; de ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ σὲ ἐπερίφην ἐκ μήτρας, ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου θεός μου εἶ σύ· μὴ ἀποστῇς ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι θλίψις ἐγγύς,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 22:11
- עָ֭לֶיךָ הָשְׁלַ֣כְתִּי מֵרָ֑חֶם מִבֶּ֥טֶן אִ֝מִּ֗י אֵ֣לִי אָֽתָּה
Haydock's commentary
Cast. This custom is noticed, (Genesis xxx. 3.) and frequently in Homer. Thou art my only Father, (Calmet) as I am born miraculously, and have been hitherto protected. I now suffer death, but thou wilt raise me to life again, Psalm xv. 9. (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
Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ, Christ Born of a Virgin, of Her Substance. The Physiological Facts of His Real and Exact Birth of a Human Mother, as Suggested by Certain Passages of Scripture
But to what shifts you resort, in your attempt to rob the syllable ex ( of ) of its proper force as a preposition, and to substitute another for it in a sense not found throughout the Holy Scriptures! You say that He was born through a virgin, not of a virgin, and in a womb, not of a womb, because the angel in the dream said to Joseph, “That which is born in her” (not of her) “is of the Holy Ghost.” But the fact is, if he had meant “of her,” he must have said “in her;” for that which was of her, was also in her. …
Origen Origen's Commentary on Matthew, Chapter XXVII
Then again one might inquire at what time those who are called their angels assume guardianship of the little ones pointed out by Christ; whether they received this commission to discharge concerning them, from what time “by the laver of regeneration,” through which they were born “as new-born babes, they long for the reasonable milk which is without guile,” and no longer are in subjection to any wicked power; or, whether from birth they had been appointed, according to the foreknowledge and predestination of God, over those whom God also foreknew, and foreordained to be conformed to the glory of the Christ. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXII
11. “I have been strengthened in Thee from the womb” ( ver. 10 ). It is the womb of the Synagogue, which did not carry Me, but threw Me out: but I fell not, for Thou heldest me. “From My mother’s womb Thou art My God.” “From My mother’s womb: My mother’s womb did not cause that, as a babe, I should be forgetful of Thee.