1 Kings 15:32
And Samuel said: Bring hitherto me Agag the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth bitter death separate in this manner?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Samuel : Adducite ad me Agag regem Amalec. Et oblatus est ei Agag, pinguissimus et tremens. Et dixit Agag : Siccine separat amara mors ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ εἶπεν Σαμουήλ Προσαγάγετέ μοι τὸν Ἀγὰγ βασιλέα Ἀμαλήκ· καὶ προσῆλθεν πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἀγὰγ τρέμων. καὶ εἶπεν Ἀγάγ Εἰ οὕτως πικρὸς ὁ θάνατος;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֗ל הַגִּ֤ישׁוּ אֵלַי֙ אֶת אֲגַג֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֲמָלֵ֔ק וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ אֵלָ֔יו אֲגַ֖ג מַעֲדַנֹּ֑ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲגָ֔ג אָכֵ֖ן סָ֥ר מַר הַמָּֽוֶת
Haydock's commentary
Trembling. Hebrew, "and Agag came to him delicately." Septuagint, "trembling," (Haydock) or walking with a soft step, or "with bands or chains;" mahadannoth. See Pagnin. (Menochius)
Some think that he presented himself boldly, like a king, fearing nothing. (Vatable)
Manner. Hebrew, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." I have obtained pardon from Saul. But the sense of the Vulgate seems preferable, as he must have perceived, from the looks of the prophet, that death was hanging over him. Hence others translate, "is pouring upon me," instead of, is past. Septuagint, "Is death thus bitter?" Chaldean, "I pray my Lord: the bitterness of death." (Haydock)
O death! how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions, &c., Ecclesiasticus xli. 1. So Aristotle (Nicom. iii. 6.) says, "Death is most terrible, (peras gar) for it is a passage," or separation, from all the things which could attach a man to this world. (Calmet)
This catastrophe of Agag and Saul, had been long before predicted, Numbers xxiv. 7. (Haydock)
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.