Psalms 98:7
He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- in columna nubis loquebatur ad eos. Custodiebant testimonia ejus, et præceptum quod dedit illis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν στύλῳ νεφέλης ἐλάλει πρὸς αὐτούς· ἐφύλασσον τὰ μαρτύρια αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὰ προστάγματα ἃ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 99:7
- בְּעַמּ֣וּד עָ֭נָן יְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם שָׁמְר֥וּ עֵ֝דֹתָ֗יו וְחֹ֣ק נָֽתַן לָֽמוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Cloud. As he did to Samuel in the night. (Berthier)
Them. By their example, the psalmist insinuates, that priests in the new law shall pray for the people. (Worthington)
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 Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter LXIV. Justin adduces other
To this I replied, “If I were to be quarrelsome and light-minded like you, Trypho, I would no longer continue to converse with you, since you are prepared not to understand what has been said, but only to return some captious answer; but now, since I fear the judgment of God, I do not state an untimely opinion concerning any one of your nation, as to whether or not some of them may be saved by the grace of the Lord of Sabaoth. Therefore, although you act wrongfully, I shall continue to reply to any proposition you shall bring forward, and to any contradiction which you make; and, in fact, I do the very same to all men of every nation, who wish to examine along with me, or make inquiry at me, regarding this subject. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCIX
9. “Moses and Aaron among His priests, and Samuel among such as call upon His Name: these called upon the Lord, and He heard them” ( ver. 6 ). “He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar” ( ver. 7 ).…Of Moses it is not there stated that he was a priest. But if he was not this, what was he? Could he be anything greater than a priest? This Psalm declareth that he also was himself a priest: “Moses and Aaron among His priests.” They therefore were the Lord’s priests. Samuel is read of later in the Book of Kings: this Samuel is in David’s times; for he anointed the holy David. Samuel from his infancy grew up in the temple.…He mentioneth these: and by these desireth us to understand all the saints. Yet why hath he here named those? Because we said that we ought here to understand Christ. Attend, holy brethren. …