1 Kings 9:18
And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate and said: Tell me, I pray thee, where is the house of the seer?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Accessit autem Saul ad Samuelem in medio portæ, et ait : Indica, oro, mihi, ubi est domus videntis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ προσήγαγεν Σαοὺλ πρὸς Σαμουὴλ εἰς μέσον τῆς πόλεως καὶ εἶπεν Ἀπάγγειλον δὴ ποῖος ὁ οἶκος τοῦ βλέποντος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּגַּ֥שׁ שָׁא֛וּל אֶת שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל בְּת֣וֹךְ הַשָּׁ֑עַר וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ הַגִּֽידָה נָּ֣א לִ֔י אֵי זֶ֖ה בֵּ֥ית הָרֹאֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Gate. Septuagint, "city." Chaldean, "within the gate," where business was transacted.
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
Theodoret Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus, The Impassible
Orth. And again when we hear Amaziah saying to the prophet Amos, “Oh thou seer go flee away into the land of Judah,” and Saul enquiring: “Tell me I pray thee where the seer’s house is,” we understand nothing bodily.