Psalms 76:8
Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid in æternum projiciet Deus ? aut non apponet ut complacitior sit adhuc ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ἀπώσεται Κύριος, καὶ οὐ προσθήσει τοῦ εὐδοκῆσαι ἔτι;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 77:8
- הַֽ֭לְעוֹלָמִים יִזְנַ֥ח אֲדֹנָ֑י וְלֹֽא יֹסִ֖יף לִרְצ֣וֹת עֽוֹד
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapter X
“He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.” As He who is peculiarly the Son of God, being no other than the Logos, yet makes use of Logos (reason), for He was the Logos in the beginning, and was with God, the Logos of God, so John, the servant of that Logos, being, if we take the Scripture to mean what it says, no other than a voice, yet uses his voice to point to the Logos. He, then, understanding in this way the prophecy about himself spoken by Isaiah the prophet, says he is a voice, not crying in the wilderness, but “of one crying in the wilderness,” of Him, namely, who stood and cried, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink.” He it was, too, who said, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVII
9. And thou hast found what? “God will not repel for everlasting” ( ver. 7 ). Weariness he had found in this life; in no place a trustworthy, in no place a fearless comfort. Unto whatsoever men he betook himself, in them he found scandal, or feared it. In no place therefore was he free from care. An evil thing it was for him to hold his peace, lest perchance he should keep silence from good words; to speak and babble without was painful to him, lest all his enemies, anticipating watches, should seek slanders in his words. Being exceedingly straitened in this life, he thought much of another life, where there is not this trial. And when is he to arrive thither? For it cannot but be evident that our suffering here is the anger of God. …