Psalms 77:3
How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quanta audivimus, et cognovimus ea, et patres nostri narraverunt nobis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅσα ἠκούσαμεν καὶ ἔγνωμεν αὐτά, καὶ οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν διηγήσαντο ἡμῖν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:3
- אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁ֭מַעְנוּ וַנֵּדָעֵ֑ם וַ֝אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ סִפְּרוּ לָֽנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Fathers. Christ might thus speak as man, and he enforces tradition in the strongest terms. (Berthier)
Only some things were written. (Worthington)
The most ancient and universal mode of instruction, was by word of mouth. (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
5. “How great things we have heard, and have known them, and our fathers have told them to us” ( ver. 3 ). The Lord was speaking higher up. For of what other person could these words be thought to be, “Hearken ye, O My people, to My law”? Why is it then that now on a sudden a man is speaking, for here we have the words of a man, “our fathers have told them to us.” Without doubt God, now about to speak by a man’s ministry, as the Apostle saith, “Will ye to receive proof of Him that is speaking in me, Christ?” in His own person at first willed the words to be uttered, lest a man speaking His words should be despised as a man. For it is thus with the sayings of God which make their way to us through our bodily sense. …