Wisdom 10:20
And they sung to thy holy name, O Lord, and they praised with one accord thy victorious hand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et decantaverunt, Domine, nomen sanctum tuum, et victricem manum tuam laudaverunt pariter :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο δίκαιοι ἐσκύλευσαν ἀσεβεῖς, καὶ ὕμνησαν, Κύριε, τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιόν σου, τήν τε ὑπέρμαχόν σου χεῖρα ᾔνεσαν ὁμοθυμαδόν·
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine The Correction of the Donatists, Chapter 9
37. But if we consider what is said in the Book of Wisdom, "Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly;" and also what is said in the Proverbs, "The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just;" then we shall see that the question is not, who are in possession of the property of the heretics? but who are in the society of the just? We know, indeed, that the Donatists arrogate to themselves such a store of justice, that they boast not only that they possess it, but that they also bestow it upon other men. …