Psalms 46:9
God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Regnabit Deus super gentes ; Deus sedet super sedem sanctam suam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη, ὁ θεὸς κάθηται ἐπὶ θρόνου ἁγίου αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 47:9
- מָלַ֣ךְ אֱ֭לֹהִים עַל גּוֹיִ֑ם אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים יָשַׁ֤ב עַל כִּסֵּ֬א קָדְשֽׁוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Throne. Christ reigns over the heart with all power, Matthew xxviii. 18.
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 Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter III. 22-29
3. John, however, may say something more evidently, that our Lord Jesus Christ is God. We may find this in the present passage, that it is perhaps of Him we have been singing, “The Lord reigned over all the earth;” against which they are deaf who imagine that He reigns only in Africa. But let them not suppose that it is not of Christ it is spoken when it is said, “God reigned over all the earth.” For who else is our King, but our Lord Jesus Christ? It is He that is our King. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XLVII
9. “God shall reign over all nations” ( ver. 8 ). Who reigned over one nation, “shall reign” (saith He) “over all nations.” When this was said, God reigned over one nation. It was a prophecy, the thing was not yet shown. Thanks be to God, we now see fulfilled what before was prophesied. A written promise God sent unto us before the time, the time fulfilled He hath repaid us. “God shall reign over all nations,” is a promise. “God sitteth upon His Holy Seat.” What then was promised to come, now being fulfilled, is acknowledged and held. “God sitteth upon His Holy Seat.” What is His Holy Seat? Haply saith one, The Heavens, and he understandeth well. For Christ hath gone up, as we know, with the Body, wherein He was crucified, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; thence we expect Him to come to judge the quick and the dead. …