1 Kings 1:27
For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my petition, which I asked of him.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pro puero isto oravi, et dedit mihi Dominus petitionem meam quam postulavi eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὑπὲρ τοῦ παιδαρίου τούτου προσηυξάμην, καὶ ἔδωκεν Κύριος τὸ αἴτημά μου ὅ ᾐτησάμην παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶל הַנַּ֥עַר הַזֶּ֖ה הִתְפַּלָּ֑לְתִּי וַיִּתֵּ֨ן יְהוָ֥ה לִי֙ אֶת שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁאַ֖לְתִּי מֵעִמּֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Rusticus
The maidservants who attend upon her you must regard as so many snares laid to entrap you; for the lower their condition is the more easy is it for you to effect their ruin. John the Baptist had a religious mother and his father was a priest. Yet neither his mother’s affection nor his father’s wealth could induce him to live in his parents’ house at the risk of his chastity. He lived in the desert, and seeking Christ with his eyes refused to look at anything else. His rough garb, his girdle made of skins, his diet of locusts and wild honey were all alike designed to encourage virtue and continence. The sons of the prophets, who were the monks of the Old Testament, built for themselves huts by the waters of Jordan and forsaking the crowded cities lived in these on pottage and wild herbs. …