The interpretation timeline

Ps 83:8

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1 Patristic · 1 Jewish

Ps 83:8 · Douay-Rheims

“For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

430

A.D.

Augustine of Hippo Patristic

A.D. 354–430

“And again, from the thought of those joys he returns to his own sighs. He sees what has come before in hope, and where he is in reality....Therefore returning to the groans proper to this place, he says, "O Lord God of virtues, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob" [Psalm 84:8]: for Jacob himself also You have made Israel out of Jacob. For God appeared unto him, and he was called Israel, [Genesis 32:28] seeing God. Hear me therefore, O God of Jacob, and make me Israel. When shall I become Israel? When the God of Gods shall appear in Sion.”

Source

675 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1105

A.D.

Rashi Jewish

1040–1105

“They go from host to host Those mentioned above, who dwell in Your house, in whose heart are the highways. from host to host From the study-hall to the synagogue, and their host and army will appear to the Holy One, blessed be He, in Zion.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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