Psalms 48:3
All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quique terrigenæ et filii hominum, simul in unum dives et pauper.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἵ τε γηγενεῖς καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ πλούσιος καὶ πένης.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 49:3
- גַּם בְּנֵ֣י אָ֭דָם גַּם בְּנֵי אִ֑ישׁ יַ֝֗חַד עָשִׁ֥יר וְאֶבְיֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Earth-born. Hebrew, "sons of Adam," a title belonging to the meanest. Progenies terræ. Perseus vi. 56. (Calmet)
So Callimachus styles the giants, "mud-born." (Haydock)
Yet Houbigant explains it of the rich, (Berthier) who have lands, and leave their names to them, ver. 12. (Haydock)
Of men. Hebrew ish, noblemen. (Menochius)
Ye just and (St. Augustine) and polite. (St. Athanasius)
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 1
3. And again he saith, “both all ye earthborn, and sons of men” ( ver. 2 ). The expression “earthborn” he doth refer to sinners; the expression “sons of men” to the faithful and righteous. Ye see then that this distinction is observed. Who are the “earthborn”? The children of the earth. Who are the children of the earth? They who desire earthly inheritances. Who are the “sons of men”? They who appertain to the Son of Man. We have already before explained this distinction to your Sanctity, and have concluded that Adam was a man, but not the son of man; that Christ was the Son of Man, but was God also. For whosoever pertain to Adam, are “earthborn:” whosoever pertain to Christ, are “sons of men.” Nevertheless, let all hear, I withhold my discourse from no one. If one is “earthborn,” let him hear, because of the judgment: another is a “son of man,” let him hear for the kingdom’s sake. …