Psalms 77:54
And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et induxit eos in montem sanctificationis suæ, montem quem acquisivit dextera ejus ; et ejecit a facie eorum gentes, et sorte divisit eis terram in funiculo distributionis ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτοὺς εἰς ὄρος ἁγιάσματος αὐτοῦ, ὄρος τοῦτο ὃ ἐκτήσατο ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 78:54
- וַ֭יְבִיאֵם אֶל גְּב֣וּל קָדְשׁ֑וֹ הַר זֶ֝֗ה קָנְתָ֥ה יְמִינֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Mountain. Hebrew, "term." Oros, with the soft spirit, means a mountain, (Berthier) and the Vulgate has taken it in this sense in both places, as the Greek accents and spirits are not of greater antiquity or consequence than the Hebrew vowel points. (Haydock)
The land of Chanaan was very different from that of Egypt, being full of mountains, Deuteronomy iii. 25., and Ezechiel xxxvi. 2. But Sion may be here meant.
Line. Thus were lands measured, Josue xiii. 8., and xvii. 5. (Calmet)
God had made a particular choice of this hilly country for his people, (Worthington) and for the chief seat of religion. (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 LXXVIII
21. In the second place, that we may not seem to do violence to divine words, and lest in the place where there was said, “He will not destroy them,” we should say, “But hereafter He will destroy them:” concerning this very present Psalm let us turn to a very common phrase of the Scripture, whereby this question may be more diligently and more truly solved. Speaking of these same persons a little lower down, when He had made mention of the things which the Egyptians because of them had endured, He saith,…“And He led them unto the mount of His sanctification, the mount which His right hand won. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
30. In the next place there followeth, “And He led them into the mountain of His sanctification” ( ver. 54 ). How much better into Holy Church! “The mountain which His right hand hath gotten.” How much higher is the Church which Christ hath gotten, concerning whom has been said, “And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” ( ver. 55 ). “And He cast forth from the face of them the nations.” And from the face of His faithful. For nations in a manner are the evil spirits of Gentile errors. “And by lot He divided unto them the land in the cord of distribution.” And in us “all things one and the same Spirit doth work, dividing severally to every one as He willeth.”