The Collect for the 3rd Sunday of Advent begins: O God, who see how your people faithfully await the feast of the Lord’s Nativity…
My spellchecker wants to change the “see” to “sees” which would be what one would expect in English. However, the Latin evidently uses the second person, i.e. (you) who see. The translator seemingly sought to avoid the yoo-hoo and dropped the “you.”
This construction (God who see) occurs in a number of Collects in the course of the Liturgical Year.
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