1 Paralipomenon 16:22
Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nolite tangere christos meos, et in prophetis meis nolite malignari.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Μὴ ἅψησθε τῶν χριστῶν μου· ἐν τοῖς προφήταις μου μὴ πονηρεύεσθε.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַֽל תִּגְּעוּ֙ בִּמְשִׁיחָ֔י וּבִנְבִיאַ֖י אַל תָּרֵֽעוּ
Haydock's commentary
Prophets. The ancient patriarchs ruled their families as kings, and directed them by word and example, like the most holy prophets. (Calmet)
Both are frequently styled anointed. (Haydock)
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
Eusebius The Church History of Eusebius, The Religion Proclaimed by Him to All Nations Was Neither New Nor Strange
9. Hence you will find those divinely favored men honored with the name of Christ, according to the passage which says of them, “Touch not my Christs, and do my prophets no harm.”