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Psalm 144:12 Douay-Rheims

To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.

A.D. 430 – 1849 4 witnesses

Patristic

before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“"That they may make known to the sons of men Your power, and the glory of the greatness of the beauty of Your kingdom" [Psalm 145:12]. Your saints then commend "the glory of the greatness of the beauty of Your kingdom," the glory of the greatness of its beauty. There is a certain "greatness of the beauty of Your kingdom:" that is, Your kingdom has beauty, and great beauty. Since whatever has beauty, has beauty from You, how great beauty has Your whole kingdom! Let not the kingdom frighten us: it has beauty also, wherewith to delight us. For what is that beauty, which the saints shall hereafter enjoy, to whom it shall be said, "Come, you blessed of My Father, enjoy the kingdom"? [Matthew 25:34] Whence shall they come? Whither shall they come? Behold, brethren, and, if you can, as far as you can, think of the beauty of that kingdom which is to come; whence our prayer says, "Your kingdom come." For that kingdom we desire may come, that kingdom the saints proclaim to be coming. Observe this world: it is beautiful. How beautiful are earth, sea, air, heavens, stars. Do not all these frighten him who considers them? Is not the beauty of them so conspicuous, that it seems as though nothing more beautiful could be found? And here, in this beauty, in this fairness almost unspeakable, here worm and mice and all creeping things of the earth live with you, they live with you in all this beauty. How great is the beauty of that kingdom where none but angels live with You! There is a greatness of a certain beauty; let it be loved before it is seen, that when it is seen, it may be retained.”
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Scholastic

c. 1100 – 1500
1235
A.D.
Radak Jewish
c. 1160–1235
“To Make Known (להודיע): And just as they bless and acknowledge among themselves, so they should make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts, which they do not know, and the glorious majesty of Your kingdom.”

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill Reformed
1697–1771
“To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,.... As in Psa 145:4; the acts of his power in providence and grace; in the salvation of his people, and the destruction of their enemies; which, with others, are made known in the ministry of the word, to those who were strangers to them, to those without the church, who wait at Wisdom's gates, and at the posts of her door; Aben Ezra interprets it of little ones, or children that knew them not, whose parents would make them known to them: rather it designs the common people, instructed by the word and the ministers of it: and the glorious majesty of his kingdom; the majesty of him as King, and the glory of his kingdom, Psa 145:5; and the perpetuity of it, as follows.”
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1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Thy. Hebrew, “his.” But the Septuagint read more correctly, with the Chaldean, &c. — Men. The Gentiles, to whom the saints, (Berthier) or converted Jews preached. (Haydock)”
Modern · 1953 →

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