Founded. Septuagint, "inhabited." This title occurs not in Hebrew (Theodoret) nor are the copies of the Septuagint uniform, which shews that it is a later insertion, intimating perhaps, that it was sung on Friday, when the works of creation were completed, (Berthier) and the world redeemed. (Worthin... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of old. Literally, "that time," ex tunc, (Worthington) alluding to some distant period, Isaias xvi. 13. (Calmet) --- God's throne is established over creatures, as soon as they exist. (Haydock) --- Yet he is eternal, (Menochius) as Christ is likewise. At his ascension, He placed his sacred humanity... [ Continue Reading ]
_Floods. The apostles, (Eusebius; St. Augustine) or persecutors. (Worthington) --- Waves. This sentence is not in the Roman Septuagint, &c. (Calmet) --- But it is in the Alexandrian and Aldine editions. Storms and tides fill all with awe and astonishment. (Calmet) --- The motion of waters, when they... [ Continue Reading ]
_On high. In heaven, more to be admired than all the phenomena of nature, and more powerful than all the vast armies of the Babylonians, Isaias xl. 15. (Calmet) --- The conversion of many nations, (Apocalypse xvii. 5.) is the work and glory of God, (Haydock) and his preserving the Church in the mids... [ Continue Reading ]
_Credible. St. Jerome, "faithful." --- Protestants, "very sure." (Haydock) --- A person must shut his eyes not to see the prophecies fulfilled concerning Christ, and his Church. (Eusebius) --- The majesty of God should strike us with a holy fear, and teach us to observe his commandments, and to beha... [ Continue Reading ]
PSALM XCII. (DOMINUS REGNAVIT.) The glory and stability of the kingdom; that is, of the Church of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]