1 Kings 18:9
And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non rectis ergo oculis Saul aspiciebat David a die illa et deinceps.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἦν Σαοὺλ ὑποβλεπόμενος τὸν Δαυεὶδ ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας ἐκείνης καὶ ἐπέκεινα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֥י שָׁא֖וּל עון אֶת דָּוִ֑ד מֵהַיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא וָהָֽלְאָה
Haydock's commentary
Eye. Septuagint, "and Saul suspected." (Haydock)
Chaldean, "laid snares for David." (Calmet)
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 The Prescription Against Heretics, Weak People Fall an Easy Prey to Heresy, Which Derives Strength from the General Frailty of Mankind. Eminent Men Have Fallen from Faith; Saul, David, Solomon. The Constancy of Christ
It is usual, indeed, with persons of a weaker character, to be so built up (in confidence) by certain individuals who are caught by heresy, as to topple over into ruin themselves. How comes it to pass, (they ask), that this woman or that man, who were the most faithful, the most prudent, and the most approved in the church, have gone over to the other side? Who that asks such a question does not in fact reply to it himself, to the effect that men whom heresies have been able to pervert ought never to have been esteemed prudent, or faithful, or approved? This again is, I suppose, an extraordinary thing, that one who has been approved should afterwards fall back? Saul, who was good beyond all others, is afterwards subverted by envy. David, a good man “after the Lord’s own heart,” is guilty afterwards of murder and adultery. …