Psalms 77:14
And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et deduxit eos in nube diei, et tota nocte in illuminatione ignis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὡδήγησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν νεφέλῃ ἡμέρας, καὶ ὅλην τὴν νύκτα ἐν φωτισμῷ πυρός·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:14
- וַיַּנְחֵ֣ם בֶּעָנָ֣ן יוֹמָ֑ם וְכָל הַ֝לַּ֗יְלָה בְּא֣וֹר אֵֽשׁ
Haydock's commentary
By day. Literally, "of the day." (Haydock)
But this is the real import of the Greek. The same cloud (Calmet) was both luminous and obscure. When the light side was turned towards Israel, the Egyptians were in darkness. (Haydock)
The eternal Son of God guided this pillar, and the Israelites tempted him, (ver. 18., and 1 Corinthians x., and Exodus xiii. 21.; Berthier) forgetting their baptism or initiation in the service of God. (Haydock)
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 LXXVIII
11. For He that “did burst asunder the sea and made them go through, did confine the waters as it were in bottles” ( ver. 13 ), in order that the water might stand up first as if it were shut in, is able by His grace to restrain the flowing and ebbing tides of carnal desires, when we renounce this world, so that all sins having been thoroughly washed away, as if they were enemies, the people of the faithful may be made to pass through by means of the Sacrament of Baptism. He that “led them home in the cloud of the day, and in the whole of the night in the illumination of fire” ( ver. …