Bellarmine on Psalm 2 : Verse 4

Verse 4

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

Qui habitat in caelis irridebit eos, et Dominus subsannabit eos.

Here the prophet demonstrates that the Princes and peoples worked in vain hen attacking the Religion of Christ, which he said at the beginning[of the Psalm]. For the religion of Christ is from God and no-one can resist God. Rightly he says: “He that dwelleth in heaven,” so that he may show God is above all and comprehends all things, meaning that He can without any trouble dissolve all their counsels and take down all their plans. When the prophet says that the Lord shall laugh at them and deride them, he means that by signs and miracles, through the suffering of the Martyrs, through the conversion of nations and peoples, and through other means known to God alone, they will be so confounded that will be for all an object of laughter and derision. This we see fulfilled. For the priesthood of the Jews and the idol-worshippers is ridiculed by all. For the Jews and Gentiles have neither temples nor sacrifices; and the kings of the Gentiles who persecuted the Church have all perished miserably.

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.