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Ps 81:7

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ps 81:7 · Douay-Rheims

“But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1105

A.D.

Rashi Jewish

1040–1105

“Indeed, as man, you will die Indeed, as Adam, you will die since you corrupted your deeds as he did. and as one of the princes the first [princes], who died, so will you fall. The Midrash Aggadah (Mid. Ps. 82:3) [explains]: As one of the celestial princes, for it is said (Isa. 24:21): “the Lord will visit punishment upon the host of heaven on high.””

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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