1 Kings 4:22
And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ait : Translata est gloria ab Israël, eo quod capta esset arca Dei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπαν Ἀπῴκισται δόξα Ἰσραήλ, ἐν τῷ λημφθῆναι τὴν κιβωτὸν Κυρίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֕אמֶר גָּלָ֥ה כָב֖וֹד מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֥י נִלְקַ֖ח אֲר֥וֹן הָאֱלֹהִֽים
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St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius
4. We read that the wife of Phinehas the priest, on hearing that the ark of the Lord had been taken, was seized suddenly with the pains of travail and that she brought forth a son Ichabod and died a mother in the hands of the women who nursed her. Rachel’s son is called Benjamin, that is ‘son of excellence’ or ‘of the right hand’; but the son of the other, afterwards to be a distinguished priest of God, derives his name from the ark. The same thing has come to pass in our own day, for since Paulina fell asleep the Church has posthumously borne the monk Pammachius, a patrician by his parentage and marriage, rich in alms, and lofty in lowliness. …