And, you, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And again: thou in the beginning, O Lord, hast founded the earth The text, as well as the authority of interpreters, show these words to be still spoken of the Son of God, of Christ, who was both true God and man. And though part of Psalm ci., from which these words are taken, contain a prayer to God for the restoring of the city of Jerusalem, yet in this psalm is chiefly signified the glory of Christ, and of his Church, which will be spread over all nations. See St. Chrysostom, Estius, Cornelius a Lap ide
As a vesture shalt thou change them The apostle, in the second verse of this chapter, had said that the world was made by the Son of God: now he tells us that all created things shall wax old like a garment, shall decay and perish, (at least from their present state and condition) shall be changed; but thou, who art both God and man, art always the same, without decay or change. (Witham)
The apostle here applies the work of the creation to the Son of God, and thus furnishes a clear...
Lest hearing the words, and when He brings in the First-Begotten into the world; you should think it as it were a Gift afterwards super-added to Him; above, he both corrected this beforehand, and again further corrects, saying, in the beginning: not now, but from the first. See again he strikes both Paul of Samosata and also Arius a mortal blow, applying to the Son the things which relate to the Father. And withal he has also intimated another thing by the way, greater even than this. For surely he has incidentally pointed out also the transfiguration of the world, saying, they shall wax old as a garment, and as a vesture You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed. Which also he says in the Epistle to the Romans, that he shall transfigure the world. See Romans 8:21 And showing the facility thereof, he adds, as if a man should fold up a garment so shall He both fold up and change it. But if He with so much ease works the transfiguration and the creation to what is better and more...
