Psalms 83:10
Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Protector noster, aspice, Deus, et respice in faciem christi tui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὑπερασπιστὰ ἡμῶν ἴδε ὁ θεός, καὶ ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ χριστοῦ σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 84:10
- מָ֭גִנֵּנוּ רְאֵ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְ֝הַבֵּ֗ט פְּנֵ֣י מְשִׁיחֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Christ. Chaldean, "the Messias," (Berthier) through whom we address all our petitions. (Worthington)
Protect thy people, (St. Jerome) and raise up the throne of David. (Calmet)
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 LXXXIV
13. “Behold, O God our defender. And look on the face of Thy Christ” ( ver. 9 ). For when doth God not look upon the face of His Christ? What is this, “Look on the face of Thy Christ”? By the face we are known. What is it then, Look on the face of Thy Christ? Cause Thy Christ to become known to all. Look on the face of Thy Christ: let Christ become known to all, that we may be able to go from strength to strength, that grace may abound, since sin hath abounded.
St Gregory of Nyssa On 'Not Three Gods.'
Most men think that the word “Godhead” is used in a peculiar degree in respect of nature: and just as the heaven, or the sun, or any other of the constituent parts of the universe are denoted by proper names which are significant of the subjects, so they say that in the case of the Supreme and Divine nature, the word “Godhead” is fitly adapted to that which it represents to us, as a kind of special name. We, on the other hand, following the suggestions of Scripture, have learnt that that nature is unnameable and unspeakable, and we say that every term either invented by the custom of men, or handed down to us by the Scriptures, is indeed explanatory of our conceptions of the Divine Nature, but does not include the signification of that nature itself. And it may be shown without much difficulty that this is the case. …