2 Machabees 2:32
But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- brevitatem vero dictionis sectari, et executiones rerum vitare, brevianti concedendum est.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from 2 Machabees 2:31
- τὸ δὲ σύντομον τῆς λέξεως μεταδιώκειν, καὶ τὸ ἐξεργαστικὸν τῆς πραγματίας παραιτεῖσθαι, τῷ τὴν μετάφρασιν ποιουμένῳ συνχωρητέον.
Haydock's commentary
Nice. Greek exergastikon, "elaborate disquisitions." Both must equally seek the truth: but long details are not expected in abridgments as they are in a full history. (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.