My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe.
All Commentaries on Psalms 45:1 Go To Psalms 45
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For them that shall be changed, i.e., For souls happily changed, by being converted to God; (Challoner) or it may allude to the variety of speakers here introduced. (Berthier)
Protestants leave shoshannim, which some translate, "on the lilies "(Aquila; St. Jerome) or "instrument of six strings. "(Calmet)
The beloved, viz., our Lord Jesus Christ. (Challoner)
Hebrew, "of loves "or of the young women, friends of the bride, (yedidoth) who sung the Epithalamium, as we see in the 18th Idyl of Theocritus. The Jews formerly explained this psalm of the Messias, as well as all the Fathers after the apostles, Hebrew, i. 8. Many passages cannot refer to Solomon's marriage with the daughter of Pharao, though some might be referred to that event, as a figure of Christ's union with his Church. (Calmet)
The whole had better be understood of Christ, (Berthier) being intended for the instruction of all converts from paganism and schism. (Worthington)
