Psalms 76:14
Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus, in sancto via tua : quis deus magnus sicut Deus noster ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ θεός, ἐν τῇ ἁγίῳ ἡ ὁδός σου· τίς θεὸς μέγας ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 77:14
- אֱ֭לֹהִים בַּקֹּ֣דֶשׁ דַּרְכֶּ֑ךָ מִי אֵ֥ל גָּ֝ד֗וֹל כֵּֽאלֹהִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Holy "place," or person. (St. Jerome)
Thy ways are inscrutable, (Muis) but always holy. (Genebrard)
Hebrew, "in sanctity." (Menochius)
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 LX
8. “God hath spoken in His Holy One” ( ver. 6 ).…In what Holy One of His? “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” In that Holy One, of whom elsewhere ye have heard, “O God, in the Holy One is Thy way.” “I will rejoice and will divide Sichima.…and the valley of tabernacles I will measure out.” Sichima is interpreted shoulders. But according to history, Jacob returning from Laban his father-in-law with all his kindred, hid the idols in Sichima which he had from Syria, where for a long time he had dwelled, and at length was coming from thence. But tabernacles he made there because of his sheep and herds, and called the place Tabernacles. And these I will divide, saith the Church. What is this, “I will divide Sichima”? If to the story where the idols were hidden is the reference, the Gentiles it signifieth; I divide the Gentiles. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVII
14. “O God, Thy way is in the Holy One” ( ver. 13 ). He is contemplating now the works of the mercy of God around us, out of these he is babbling, and in these affections he is exulting. At first he is beginning from thence, “Thy way is in the Holy One?” What is that way of Thine which is in the Holy One? “I am,” He saith, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Return therefore, ye men, from your affections.…“Who is a great God, like our God?” Gentiles have their affections regarding their gods, they adore idols, they have eyes and they see not; ears they have and they hear not; feet they have and they walk not. Why dost thou walk to a God that walketh not? I do not, he saith, worship such things, and what dost thou worship? The divinity which is there. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew X. 7, 8, 9
Or if we should even grant that this was said by Him in the way of comparison, this was done in condescension,because of the weakness of the hearers. For the men really had their gaze very much fixed upon John; and then he was rendered the more illustrious both by his imprisonment, and by his plainness of speech to the king; and it was a great point for the present, that even so much should be received among the multitude. And so too, the Old Testament uses in the same way to correct the souls of the erring, by putting together in a way of comparison things that cannot be compared; as when it saith, “Among the gods there is none like unto Thee, O Lord:”and again, “There is no god like our God.”