Romans 15:11
And again: Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and magnify him, all ye people.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et iterum : Laudate omnes gentes Dominum : et magnificate eum omnes populi.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ πάλιν· Αἰνεῖτε, πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, τὸν κύριον, καὶ ἐπαινεσάτωσαν αὐτὸν πάντες οἱ λαοί.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily XXVIII on Rom. xv. 8
Ver. 10-12 . “And, rejoice, ye Gentiles, with His people. And, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles” ( Deut. xxxii. 43 ); “and let all people laud Him.” ( Ps. cxvii. 1 .) “And, There shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles trust.” ( Is. xi. 1, 10 .) Now all these quotations he has given to show that we ought to be united, and to glorify God; and also, to humble the Jew, that he may not lift himself up over these, since all the prophets called these, as well as to persuade the man of the Gentiles to be lowly, by showing him that he had a larger grace to answer for. Then he concludes his argument with a prayer again.
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).