The interpretation timeline

Ps 33:10

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2 Patristic · 1 Jewish · 1 Catholic

Ps 33:10 · Douay-Rheims
“Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
379
A.D.
Basil of Caesarea Patristic
c. A.D. 330–379
“Wealth is unstable and like a wave accustomed to change hither and thither by the violence of the wind.… God himself is absolute Good, and they who seek him will not be without him.”
455
A.D.
Arnobius the Younger Patristic
d. A.D. 455
“The rich dwell in uncertainty concerning the things the world gives. The riches that God gives do not fail, but they remain because these riches arise in the fear of the Lord.”
650 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“Fear Heb. יראו. Be afraid, the imperative form.”
169 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
1274
A.D.
Thomas Aquinas Catholic
1225–1274
“But next, when he says, "The rich have been in need," he makes the reason manifest through the contrary. For the contrary of the fear of the Lord is the affection of those who give their souls to riches. First, therefore, he shows that those who are in riches are in want. Second, that those who seek God are without want, at "Those who seek." He says therefore, "The rich have been in need," namely spiritually; that is, those who are rich in worldly things have been in want of spiritual riches. Rev. 3: "You say, I am rich and have been enriched and need nothing; and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked." "And have been hungry," namely for spiritual goods: because there is a natural appetite in man for virtue; for although the appetite is depraved toward sins, yet naturally he desires virtues. Or, in the future, "they have been in need," that is, they will be in need, "and have been hungry," that is, they will hunger: Is. 65: "My servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry." Likewise, it is understood literally: because the rich are frequently reduced to destitution, because worldly things are perishable. Lk. 1: "The hungry he has filled with good things," etc. "But those who seek the Lord": Is. 55: "Seek the Lord while he may be found," etc. "Shall not be diminished in any good," that is, they shall not lack the perfect good: because they shall have spiritual goods at will, and temporal goods as needed: Lk. 12: "Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you": Prov. 10: "The desire of the just shall be granted." And their desire is every good: Prov. 11: and therefore they shall have every good.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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