2 Machabees 2:13
And these same things were set down in the memoirs and commentaries of Nehemias: and how he made a library, and gathered together out of the countries, the books both of the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings. and concerning the holy gifts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inferebantur autem in descriptionibus et commentariis Nehemiæ hæc eadem : et ut construens bibliothecam congregavit de regionibus libros et prophetarum et David, et epistolas regum, et de donariis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐξηγοῦντο δὲ καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἀναγραφαῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὑπομνηματισμοῖς τοῖς κατὰ τὸν Νεεμίαν τὰ αὐτά, καὶ ὡς καταβαλλόμενος βιβλιοθήκην ἐπισυνήγαγεν τὰ περὶ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ προφητῶν βιβλία, καὶ τὰ τοῦ Δαυείδ, καὶ ἐπιστολὰς βασιλέων περὶ ἀναθεμάτων.
Haydock's commentary
Set down. Greek, "explained."
Books. The Scriptures were not lost. (Menochius)
Perhaps before this time no complete collection of them had been made. Esdras would point out and help to discover what had been written. (Calmet)
The senate of the nation was also present. (Simon Crit. i. 1.)
David: the psalms. All the other books may be designated under the name of prophets. (Haydock)
Kings; Cyrus, &c., 1 Esdras vi. 3., &c. Josephus has inserted many such letters in his work. They were like the title-deeds of the nation. (Calmet)
And. Greek, "regarding the presents;" anathematon. (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.