1 Kings 12:4
And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man's hand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixerunt : Non es calumniatus nos, neque oppressisti, neque tulisti de manu alicujus quippiam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπαν πρὸς Σαμουήλ Οὐκ ἠδίκησας ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐ κατεδυνάστευσας καὶ οὐκ ἔθλασας ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐκ εἴληφας ἐκ χειρὸς οὐδενὸς οὐδέν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ לֹ֥א עֲשַׁקְתָּ֖נוּ וְלֹ֣א רַצּוֹתָ֑נוּ וְלֹֽא לָקַ֥חְתָּ מִיַּד אִ֖ישׁ מְאֽוּמָה
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Oceanus
9. We have learned what we ought to be: let us now learn what priests ought not to be. Indulgence in wine is the fault of diners out and revellers. When the body is heated with drink it soon boils over with lust. Wine drinking means self-indulgence, self-indulgence means sensual gratification, sensual gratification means a breach of chastity. He that lives in pleasure is dead while he lives, and he that drinks himself drunk is not only dead but buried. One hour’s debauch makes Noah uncover his nakedness which through sixty years of sobriety he had kept covered. Lot in a fit of intoxication unwittingly adds incest to incontinence, and wine overcomes the man whom Sodom failed to conquer. A bishop that is a striker is condemned by Him who gave His back to the smiters, and when He was reviled reviled not again. “But moderate”; one good thing is set over against two evil things. …