Psalms 86:6

Verse 6. Writings. He alone can number the inhabitants: or He will enroll all nations as citizens of Sion. Calmet.—The New Testament explains the vocation of the Gentiles, and the incarnation of Christ. Bert.—The Scriptures are the books of all mankind, as well as of princes. All are equally interested in their contents, and ought to become acquainted with them. Hebrew “the Lord has numbered, writing down peoples: He was born in it for ever.” Saint Jerome—This refers to Jesus Christ, whose birth is also specified in the preceding verse, (Bert.) as ennobling Sion, far more than that of Home, Alexander, or Cæsar could do any of the pagan cities, Egypt, and so forth verse 4. Bible.—The mystery of the incarnation will shine forth at the last day, as well as the glory of the elect. But these things are already consigned in part to all nations, in the writings of the apostles, (Bert.) and in ecclesiastical history. Menochius.—Princes, is not here in Hebrew Bert.