2 Kings 13:31
Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Surrexit itaque rex, et scidit vestimenta sua, et cecidit super terram : et omnes servi illius qui assistebant ei, sciderunt vestimenta sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνέστη ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ διέρρηξεν τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ πάντες οἱ παῖδες αὐτοῦ οἱ περιεστῶτες αὐτῷ διέρρηξαν τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֧קָם הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וַיִּקְרַ֥ע אֶת בְּגָדָ֖יו וַיִּשְׁכַּ֣ב אָ֑רְצָה וְכָל עֲבָדָ֥יו נִצָּבִ֖ים קְרֻעֵ֥י בְגָדִֽים
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter V. Those things which are generally looked on as good are mostly hindrances to a blessed life, and those which are looked on as evil are the materials out of which virtues grow. What belongs to blessedness is shown by other examples
20. Suppose that things come which are accounted terrible as regards the grief they cause, such as blindness, exile, hunger, violation of a daughter, loss of children. Who will deny that Isaac was blessed, who did not see in his old age, and yet gave blessings with his benediction? Was not Jacob blessed who, leaving his father’s house, endured exile as a shepherd for pay, and mourned for the violated chastity of his daughter, and suffered hunger? Were they not blessed on whose good faith God received witness, as it is written: “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”? A wretched thing is slavery, but Joseph was not wretched; nay, clearly he was blessed, when he whilst in slavery checked the lusts of his mistress. …