2 Machabees 1:23
And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Orationem autem faciebant omnes sacerdotes, dum consummaretur sacrificium, Jonatha inchoante, ceteris autem respondentibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- προσευχὴν δὲ ἐποιήσαντο οἱ ἱερεῖς δαπανωμένης τῆς θυσίας, οἵ τε ἱερεῖς καὶ πάντες, καταρχομένου Ἰωνάθου τῶν τε λοιπῶν ἐπιφωνούντων, ὡς Νεεμίου.
Haydock's commentary
Jonathan, one of the chief priests; perhaps Joiada, Eliasib's son. (Calmet)
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.