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Psalm X
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Original anonymous translator (first thirty Oxford Psalms), A. Cleveland Coxe (abridgment).
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The two Psalms are combined in the Vulgate. But here the verses begin again, treating this as “Ps. x. secundum Hebræos.” [And so our English version.—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm X, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source
Psalm X.
LXX. var. lect. δι’ αὐτὴν, “because of it.” These words should be marked as part of the text, as some mss. are pointed.
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm X, editorial note cite_note-16 · Original source
12. “Break the arm of the sinner and of the malicious” (ver. 15); of him, namely, of whom it was said above, “He shall have dominion over all his enemies.” He called his power then, his arm; to which Christ’s power is opposed, of which it is said, “Arise, O Lord God, let Thine hand be exalted. His fault shall be required, and he shall not be found because of it;” that is he shall be judged for his sins, and himself shall perish because of his sin. After this, what wonder if there follow, “The Lord shall reign for ever and world without end; ye heathen shall perish out of His earth”? (ver. 16). He uses heathen for sinners and ungodly.
[Compare Hippolytus, A.N.F. vol. v. pp. 205–219.—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm X, editorial note cite_note-2 · Original source
2. “The sinner hath angered the Lord” (ver. 4). Let no one congratulate the man that prospers in his way, to whose sins no avenger is nigh, and an approver is by. This is the greater anger of the Lord. For the sinner hath angered the Lord, that he should suffer these things, that is, should not suffer the scourging of correction. “The sinner hath angered the Lord: according to the multitude of His anger He will not search it out.” Great is His anger, when He searcheth not out, when He as it were forgetteth and marketh not sin, and by fraud and wickedness man attains to riches and honours: which will especially be the case in that Antichrist, who will seem to man blessed to that degree, that he will even be thought God. But how great this anger of God is, we are taught by what follows.
[Manichees. See A.N.F. vol. vi. p. 252.—C.]
Editorial footnote · Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Coxe abridgment), Psalm X, editorial note cite_note-15 · Original source
11. “The poor hath been left unto Thee.” For therefore is he poor, that is, hath despised all the temporal goods of this world, that Thou only mayest be his hope. “Thou wilt be a helper to the orphan,” that is, to him to whom his father this world, by whom he was born after the flesh, dies, and who can already say, “The world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” For of such orphans God becomes the Father. The Lord teaches us in truth that His disciples do become orphans, to whom He saith, “Call no man father on earth.” Of which He first Himself gave an example in saying, “Who is my mother, and who my brethren?” Whence some most mischievous heretics would assert that He had no mother; and they do not see that it follows from this, if they pay attention to these words, that neither had His disciples fathers. For as He said, “Who is my mother?” so He taught them, when He said, “Call no man your father on earth.”