2 Machabees 2:30
For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged for us.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut enim novæ domus architecto de universa structura curandum est ; ei vero qui pingere curat, quæ apta sunt ad ornatum exquirenda sunt : ita æstimandum est et in nobis.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 2 Machabees 2:29
- καθάπερ γὰρ τῆς καινῆς οἰκίας ἀρχιτέκτονι τῆς ὅλης καταβολῆς φροντιστέον, τῷ δὲ ἐνκαινίζειν καὶ ζωγραφεῖν ἐπιχειροῦντι τὰ ἐπιτήδεια πρὸς διακόσμησιν ἐξεταστέον, οὕτως δοκῶ καὶ ἐπὶ ἡμῶν.
Haydock's commentary
Master. Such is Jason. I only paint some parts. (Calmet)
Paint. Greek, "to burn in and represent to the life, must," &c. (Haydock)
The ancients painted the walls, preparing them by fire, &c. (Vitruvius vii. 5.; Josephus, Antiquities xvii. 12.) (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.