Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Raged. Hebrew, "come together with tumult "(Symmachus) "loud cries "like a furious army, composed of several nations. (Haydock)
Why have the Philistines, assembled to obstruct my reign? or (Calmet) "why will the Gentiles be troubled, and the tribes meditate vain things? "(St. Jerome) Pilate, Herod, and the chiefs of the Jews, met to destroy the Messias; though, on other occasions, they were at variance. (Haydock)
Their attempts were fruitless. Their false witnesses could not agree. (Calmet)
The priests had, in vain, meditated on the law, since they had not discovered Him who was the end of it. (St. Athanasius;)
People of Israel, Acts iv. 27. (Menochius)
