Psalms 91:15
They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Adhuc multiplicabuntur in senecta uberi, et bene patientes erunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τότε πληθυνθήσονται ἐν γήρει πίονι, καὶ εὐπαθοῦντες ἔσονται·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 92:15
- ע֭וֹד יְנוּב֣וּן בְּשֵׂיבָ֑ה דְּשֵׁנִ֖ים וְרַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים יִהְיֽוּ
Haydock's commentary
Well treated. Or affected. (Worthington)
Bene patientes, eupathountes, "flourishing," (Grotius) tranquil, (St. Augustine) or in a prosperous condition. (Berthier)
Erasmus, to shew the utility of consulting the originals, informs us, what a multiplicity of authors he consulted in vain, to know the import of this word. (Amama)
"They shall be fat and covered with leaves," (St. Jerome) alluding to the aforesaid comparison.
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
Tertullian On Idolatry, Concerning Festivals in Honour of Emperors, Victories, and the Like. Examples of the Three Children and Daniel
But “let your works shine,” saith He; but now all our shops and gates shine! You will now-a-days find more doors of heathens without lamps and laurel-wreaths than of Christians. What does the case seem to be with regard to that species (of ceremony) also? If it is an idol’s honour, without doubt an idol’s honour is idolatry. If it is for a man’s sake, let us again consider that all idolatry is for man’s sake; let us again consider that all idolatry is a worship done to men, since it is generally agreed even among their worshippers that aforetime the gods themselves of the nations were men; and so it makes no difference whether that superstitious homage be rendered to men of a former age or of this. Idolatry is condemned, not on account of the persons which are set up for worship, but on account of those its observances, which pertain to demons. …
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book II
xcii. 14 . Those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish.