2 Machabees 2:28
But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut hi qui præparant convivium, et quærunt aliorum voluntati parere propter multorum gratiam, libenter laborem sustinemus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 2 Machabees 2:27
- καθάπερ τῷ παρασκευάζοντι συμπόσιον, καὶ ζητοῦντι τὴν ἑτέρων λυσιτέλειαν, οὐκ εὐχερές· ὅμως διὰ τὴν τῶν πολλῶν εὐχαριστίαν ἡδέως τὴν κακοπάθειαν ὑποίσομεν·
Haydock's commentary
Others. Greek, "have no easy task, so," &c. (Haydock)
He alludes to the custom of choosing a master of the feast, who had to strive to give general satisfaction, Ecclesiasticus xxxii. 1., and Esther i. 8. (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.