1 Paralipomenon 6:35
The son of Suph, the son of Elcana, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- filii Suph, filii Elcana, filii Mahath, filii Amasai,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- υἱοῦ Σοὺφ υἱοῦ Ἐλκανὰ υἱοῦ Μὲθ υἱοῦ Ἀμαθειοὺ
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from 1 Paralipomenon 6:20
- בֶּן ציף בֶּן אֶלְקָנָ֔ה בֶּן מַ֖חַת בֶּן עֲמָשָֽׂי
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against Jovinianus, Book I
23. Next he brings forward Samson, and does not consider that the Lord’s Nazarite was once shaven bald by a woman. And although Samson continues to be a type of the Saviour because he loved a harlot from among the Gentiles, which harlot corresponds to the Church, and because he slew more enemies in his death than he did in his life, yet he does not set an example of conjugal chastity. And he surely reminds us of Jacob’s prophecy, he was shaken by his runaway steed, bitten by an adder and fell backwards. But why he enumerated Deborah, and Barak, and the wife of Heber the Kenite, I am at a loss to understand. For it is one thing to draw up a list of military commanders in historical sequence, another to indicate certain figures of marriage which cannot be found in them. And whereas he prefers the fidelity of the father Jephthah to the tears of the virgin daughter, that makes for us. …