1 Kings 2:18
But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Samuel autem ministrabat ante faciem Domini, puer accinctus ephod lineo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ Σαμουὴλ ἦν λειτουργῶν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, παιδάριον περιεζωσμένον ἐφοὺδ βάρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל מְשָׁרֵ֖ת אֶת פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה נַ֕עַר חָג֖וּר אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד
Haydock's commentary
Ephod. It was not, therefore, peculiar to priests, 2 Kings vi. 14.
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
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Chromatius, Jovinus, and Eusebius
6. I salute your mother and mine with the respect which, as you know, I feel towards her. Associated with you as she is in a holy life, she has the start of you, her holy children, in that she is your mother. Her womb may thus be truly called golden. With her I salute your sisters, who ought all to be welcomed wherever they go, for they have triumphed over their sex and the world, and await the Bridegroom’s coming, their lamps replenished with oil. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Marcella
An explanation of the Hebrew words Ephod bad ( 1 Sam. ii. 18 ) and Teraphim ( Judges xvii. 5 ). Written at Rome to Marcella, also at Rome a.d. 384.