“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Rm.11:33)
Just a few minutes after posting the last blog I got the following graciously clarifying message.
The amazing thing is that it came from my friend Eugene who I consider both a Saint and Bishop!
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Rm.11:33)
Eugene wrote:
This might throw some light on the psalm numbering mistake!
For those who read translations of the psalms based on the Septuagint version (Vulgate and most Catholic translations) rather than on the Hebrew (most non-Catholic translations), discrepancy in the enumeration of the psalms is immediately evident. Translations following the Hebrew enumeration are frequently one number ahead of those following the Septuagint, e.g., Ps 22 in the Septuagint and Catholic translations is numbered in the Hebrew and non – Catholic translations is Ps. 23. The discreptancy is due to the division into two by the Septuagint of certain psalms which in the Hebrew and non-Catholic translations remain as one psalm, and to the division into two in the Hebrew of other psalms which remain as one in the Septuagint.
Septuagint 1-8 9 10-112 113 114-115 116-145 146-147 148-150
Hebrew 1-8 9-10 11-113 114-115 116 117-146 147 148-150
Maybe the Bishop was “right” after all, in an odd RC kind of way!