Psalms 70:17
Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus, docuisti me a juventute mea ; et usque nunc pronuntiabo mirabilia tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐδίδαξάς με, ὁ θεός, ἐκ νεότητός μου, καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἀναγγελῶ τὰ θαυμάσιά σου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:17
- אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים לִמַּדְתַּ֥נִי מִנְּעוּרָ֑י וְעַד הֵ֝֗נָּה אַגִּ֥יד נִפְלְאוֹתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Till now. Here the stop should be placed. (Berthier) (Calmet)
The verb may also be explained in the past time, "till now I have declared." (Berthier)
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, Psalm LXXI
19. “O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth” ( ver. 17 ). What hast thou taught me? That of Thy righteousness alone I ought to be mindful. For reviewing my past life, I see what was owing to me, and what I have received instead of that which was owing to me. There was owing punishment, there hath been paid grace: there was owing hell, there hath been given life eternal. “O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth.” From the very beginning of my faith, wherewith Thou hast renewed me, Thou didst teach me that nothing had preceded in me, whence I might say that there was owing to me what Thou hast given. …
St Hilary of Poitiers De Trinitate or On the Trinity, Book XII
34. But, heretic, do you consider it pious and devout to confess that God indeed always existed, yet was not always Father? For if it is pious for you to think so, you must then condemn Paul of impiety, when he says that the Son existed before times eternal: you must also accuse Wisdom itself, when it bears witness concerning itself that it was founded before the ages: for it was present with the Father when He was preparing the heaven. But in order that you may assign to God a beginning of His being a Father, first determine the starting-point at which the times must have begun. For if they had a beginning, the Apostle is a liar for declaring them to be eternal. For you all are accustomed to reckon the times from the creation of the sun and the moon, since it is written of them, And let them be for signs and for times and for years . …