1 Kings 20:4
And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ait Jonathas ad David : Quodcumque dixerit mihi anima tua, faciam tibi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἰωναθὰν πρὸς Δαυείδ Τί ἐπιθυμεῖ ἡ ψυχή σου, καὶ τί ποιήσω σοι;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוֹנָתָ֖ן אֶל דָּוִ֑ד מַה תֹּאמַ֥ר נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה לָּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Soul, is often put for desire, Psalm xxvi. 12. (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
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Galatians 5:1
Here some make the charge that the Apostle has divided man into two parts, and that he states the essence of which he is compounded to be conflicting with itself, and that the body has a contest with the soul. But this is not so, most certainly; for by “the flesh,” he does not mean the body; if he did, what would be the sense of the clause immediately following, “for it lusteth,” he says, “against the Spirit?” yet the body moves not, but is moved, is not an agent, but is acted upon. How then does it lust, for lust belongs to the soul not to the body, for in another place it is said, “My soul longeth,” ( Ps. lxxxiv. 2 .) and, “Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee,” ( 1 Sam. xx. 4 .) and, “Walk not according to the desires of thy heart,” and, “So panteth my soul.” ( Ps. xlii. …