Psalms 82:13
Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui dixerunt : Hæreditate possideamus sanctuarium Dei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἵτινες εἶπαν Κληρονομήσωμεν ἑαυτοῖς τὸ θυσιαστήριον τοῦ θεοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 83:13
- אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָ֭מְרוּ נִ֣ירֲשָׁה לָּ֑נוּ אֵ֝֗ת נְא֣וֹת אֱלֹהִֽים
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXIII
8. “All their princes, who said, Let us take to ourselves the sanctuary of God in possession” ( ver. 12 ). This is that vain noise, with which, as said above, Thy enemies have made a murmuring. But what must be understood by “the sanctuary of God,” except the temple of God? as saith the Apostle: “For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” For what else do the enemies aim at, but to take into possession, that is, to make subject to themselves the temple of God, that it may give in to their ungodly wills?