Psalms 30:25
Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Viriliter agite, et confortetur cor vestrum, omnes qui speratis in Domino.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνδρίζεσθε, καὶ κραταιούσθω ἡ καρδία ὑμῶν, πάντες οἱ ἐλπίζοντες ἐπὶ Κύριον.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 31:25
- חִ֭זְקוּ וְיַאֲמֵ֣ץ לְבַבְכֶ֑ם כָּל הַ֝מְיַחֲלִ֗ים לַיהוָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapter III
We have lingered rather long over these discussions, but there is a reason for it. There are many who, under the pretence of glorifying the advent of Christ, declare the Apostles to be wiser than the fathers or the prophets; and of these teachers some have invented a greater God for the later period, while some, not venturing so far, but moved, according to their own account of the matter, by the difficulty connected with doctrine, cancel the whole of the gift conferred by God on the fathers and the prophets, through Christ, through whom all things were made. If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXXI
25. “Quit you like men, and let your heart be strengthened” ( ver. 24 ): working good without fainting, that ye may reap in due season. “All ye who trust in the Lord:” that is, ye who duly fear and worship Him, trust ye in the Lord.
St Athanasius Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.), The Saints fled for our sakes
The flight of the saints therefore was neither blameable nor unprofitable. If they had not avoided their persecutors, how would it have come to pass that the Lord should spring from the seed of David? Or who would have preached the glad tidings of the word of truth? It was for this that the persecutors sought after the saints, that there might be no one to teach, as the Jews charged the Apostles; but for this cause they endured all things, that the Gospel might be preached. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).