Psalms 70:18
And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et usque in senectam et senium, Deus, ne derelinquas me, donec annuntiem brachium tuum generationi omni quæ ventura est, potentiam tuam,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἕως γήρους καὶ πρεσβείου· ὁ θεός, μὴ ἐνκαταλίπῃς με ἕως ἂν ἀπαγγείλω τὸν βραχίονά σου πάσῃ τῇ γενεᾷ τῇ ἐρχομένῃ, τὴν δυναστίαν σου
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 71:18
- וְגַ֤ם עַד זִקְנָ֨ה וְשֵׂיבָה֮ אֱלֹהִ֪ים אַֽל תַּעַ֫זְבֵ֥נִי עַד אַגִּ֣יד זְרוֹעֲךָ֣ לְד֑וֹר לְכָל יָ֝ב֗וֹא גְּבוּרָתֶֽךָ
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian Against Praxeas, The Identity of the Father and the Son, as Praxeas Held It, Shown to Be Full of Perplexity and Absurdity. Many Scriptures Quoted in Proof of the Distinction of the Divine Persons of the Trinity
It will be your duty, however, to adduce your proofs out of the Scriptures as plainly as we do, when we prove that He made His Word a Son to Himself. For if He calls Him Son, and if the Son is none other than He who has proceeded from the Father Himself, and if the Word has proceeded from the Father Himself, He will then be the Son, and not Himself from whom He proceeded. For the Father Himself did not proceed from Himself. Now, you who say that the Father is the same as the Son, do really make the same Person both to have sent forth from Himself (and at the same time to have gone out from Himself as) that Being which is God. If it was possible for Him to have done this, He at all events did not do it. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
21. “And even unto oldness and old age” ( ver. 18 ). These are two terms for old age, and are distinguished by the Greeks. For the gravity succeeding youth hath another name among the Greeks, and after that same gravity the last age coming on hath another name; for πρεσβύτης signifieth grave, and γ™ρων old. But because in the Latin language the distinction of these two terms holdeth not, both words implying old age are inserted, oldness and old age: but ye know them to be two ages. “Thou hast taught me Thy grace from my youth; and even until now;” after my youth, “I will tell forth Thy wonderful works,” because Thou art with me in order that I may not die, who hast come in order that I may rise: “and even unto oldness and old age,” that is, even unto my last breath, unless with me Thou shalt have been, there will not be any merit of mine; may Thy grace alway remain with me. …