But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
But one; to wit, the author of the 8th Psalm said, what is man that it, man, or mankind, considered in his own frail nature, corrupted by sin, guilty of eternal death, that thou shouldst be mindful of him, restore him to thy favour, and bestow such graces upon him? But the words of the psalm, and of St. Paul in this place, though they may be understood of every man, yet are to be taken as particularly spoken of Christ as man, or of the human nature of Christ, exalted by the real union with the divine person of the Son of God. (Witham)
If the sacred humanity of Jesus Christ spoke in this manner, when visited by the eternal word, with what humility ought a sinner to say: What is man?
Then he brings forward another testimony also and says, but one in a certain place testified, saying. Wherefore did he not mention the name of the prophet, but hid it? Yea, and in other testimonies also he does this: as when he says, but when He brings in again the First-Begotten into the world, He says, And let all the Angels of God worship Him. And again, I will be to Him a Father. And of the Angels He says, Who makes His angels spirits. And, You, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the earth c. i. 6, 5, 7, 10:— so also here he says, but one in a certain place testified, saying. And this very thing (I conceive) is the act of one that conceals himself, and shows that they were well skilled in the Scriptures; his not setting down him who uttered the testimony, but introducing it as familiar and obvious.
