1 Kings 22:16
And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's house.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque rex : Morte morieris Achimelech, tu et omnis domus patris tui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαούλ Θανάτῳ ἀποθανῇ, Ἀβειμέλεχ, σὺ καὶ πᾶς ὁ οἶκος τοῦ πατρός σου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מ֥וֹת תָּמ֖וּת אֲחִימֶ֑לֶךְ אַתָּ֖ה וְכָל בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽיךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius on the Best Method of Translating
9. I refer to these passages, not to convict the evangelists of falsification, a charge worthy only of impious men like Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian, but to bring home to my critics their own want of knowledge, and to gain from them such consideration that they may concede to me in the case of a simple letter what, whether they like it or not, they will have to concede to the Apostles in the Holy Scriptures. Mark, the disciple of Peter, begins his gospel thus: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as it is written in the prophet Isaiah: Behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” This quotation is made up from two prophets, Malachi that is to say and Isaiah. …