Psalms 48:20
He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Introibit usque in progenies patrum suorum ; et usque in æternum non videbit lumen.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσελεύσεται ἕως γενεᾶς πατέρων αὐτοῦ, ἕως αἰῶνος οὐκ ὄψεται φῶς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 49:20
- תָּ֭בוֹא עַד דּ֣וֹר אֲבוֹתָ֑יו עַד נֵ֝֗צַח לֹ֣א יִרְאוּ אֽוֹר
Haydock's commentary
Fathers. Like them he shall die. (Haydock)
Hebrew reads in the second person, with Syriac, Aquila, &c. (Calmet)
Yet Protestants, Montanus, and others agree with us and the Septuagint.
And he. Hebrew, "they." The [] edition, however, has opsetai. Each individual, as well as the whole collection of the damned, shall be deprived of light and comfort. (Haydock)
Chaldean, "the just shall live like his fathers, a long and happy life; but the wicked shall enjoy no light in the life to come."
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 Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 2
9. “He shall enter even unto the generations of his fathers” ( ver. 19 ): that is, he shall imitate his fathers. For the unrighteous, that now are, have brothers, have fathers. Unrighteous men of old, are the fathers of the present; and they that are now unrighteous, are the fathers of unrighteous posterity: just as the fathers of the righteous, the righteous of old, are the fathers of the righteous that now are; and they that now are, are the fathers of them that are to be. The Holy Spirit hath willed to show that righteousness is not evil when men murmur against her: but these men have their father from the beginning, even to the generation of their fathers. Two men Adam begat, and in one was unrighteousness, in one was righteousness: unrighteousness in Cain, righteousness in Abel. …