Wisdom 6:4
For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works, and search out your thoughts:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam data est a Domino potestas vobis, et virtus ab Altissimo : qui interrogabit opera vestra, et cogitationes scrutabitur.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Wisdom 6:3
- ὅτι ἐδόθη παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡ κράτησις ὑμῖν, καὶ ἡ δυναστεία παρὰ Ὑψίστου, ὃς ἐξετάσει ὑμῶν τὰ ἔργα καὶ τὰς βουλὰς διεραυνήσει·
Haydock's commentary
Power. All power is from God, and to be respected, even though the magistrate should sometimes abuse his authority. (Worthington) (Romans xiii. 1.)
They must render an account to the common master, 2 Paralipomenon xix. 6.
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.