1 Kings 1:14
And said to her: How long wilt thou, be drunk? digest a little the wine, of which thou hast taken too much.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dixitque ei : Usquequo ebria eris ? digere paulisper vinum, quo mades.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ τὸ παιδάριον Ἠλεί Ἕως πότε μεθυσθήσῃ; περιελοῦ τὸν οἶνόν σου καὶ πορεύου ἐκ προσώπου Κυρίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֨יהָ֙ עֵלִ֔י עַד מָתַ֖י תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִ֑ין הָסִ֥ירִי אֶת יֵינֵ֖ךְ מֵעָלָֽיִךְ
Haydock's commentary
Much. Heli's "son or servant," (paidarion, according to the Septuagint) addressed these words to Anna. Her going to pray immediately after a feast, instead of taking recreation, increased the suspicion. (St. Chrysostom, hom. 1.)
Salien (the year before Christ 1153) observes the many instances of patience which Anna exhibits on this occasion. (Haydock)
She teaches us not to answer the unjust reproaches of our superiors with haughtiness. (Du Hamel)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Fasting, Chapter VII
Through this attendant of mourning, and (this) hunger, even that sinful state, Nineveh, is freed from the predicted ruin. For repentance for sins had sufficiently commended the fast, keeping it up in a space of three days, starving out even the cattle with which God was not angry. Sodom also, and Gomorrah, would have escaped if they had fasted. This remedy even Ahab acknowledges. When, after his transgression and idolatry, and the slaughter of Naboth, slain by Jezebel on account of his vineyard, Elijah had upbraided him, “How hast thou killed, and possessed the inheritance? In the place where dogs had licked up the blood of Naboth, thine also shall they lick up,”, he “abandoned himself, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and slept in sackcloth. …
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XV on Acts vi. 8
Not the being afflicted is an evil; the evil is, to sin. This is the sore affliction, however we may pass our days in luxury: not to speak of the life to come, it is so even in this life present. Think how our conscience is stung with remorse, and whether this is not worse than any kind of torture! I should like to put the question searchingly to those who live in evil ways ( ἐν κακοἵς ), whether they never come to reflect upon their own sins, whether they do not tremble, and are in fear and anguish, whether they do not think those blessed who live in abstinence, them of the mountains, them of the strict rule? ( τοὺς ἐν πολλῇ φιλοσοφί& 139· .) Dost thou wish to find rest in the life to come? Suffer affliction in this life for Christ’s sake: there is nothing equal to this rest. The Apostles rejoiced when scourged. Paul gives this exhortation, saying, “Rejoice in the Lord.” ( Philip. iv. …