I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Formed. Hebrew “brought forth.” Job 38:8. Calmet.—Here Origen improperly concluded the sentence. Saint Jerome Ep. ad Cypr.—God, is not in Septuagint Syr. or ancient Latin psalters. Calmet.—Al signifies both God, and not, and seems to be twice explained in the Vulg. as Hebrew omits not, verse 3. Bible.—The sentence would be very striking, if God were left out, as it is done by Houbigant. The eternity of matter is refuted by this text. Bert. Worthington.—God’s eternity is contrasted with man’s short life. Calmet.—New gods must of course be false. Menochius.—Plato asserted, that “the creator of all must be unbegotten and eternal.” Plut. Conviv. viii.