3 Kings 18:17
And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et cum vidisset eum, ait : Tune es ille, qui conturbas Israël ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς εἶδεν Ἀχαὰβ τὸν Ἠλειού, καὶ εἶπεν Ἀχαὰβ πρὸς Ἠλειού Εἰ σὺ εἶ αὐτὸς ὁ διαστρέφων τὸν Ἰσραήλ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֛י כִּרְא֥וֹת אַחְאָ֖ב אֶת אֵלִיָּ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אַחְאָב֙ אֵלָ֔יו הַאַתָּ֥ה זֶ֖ה עֹכֵ֥ר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Troublest Israel? Thus the wicked esteem those disturbers of the public repose, who will not suffer them to go on in their wickedness unmolested. Thus the Jews complain of Jesus Christ, Luke xxiii. 5. Such a war is better than a false peace: and Achab, in fact, proclaims the praise of Elias, who strove by easy means to make the people open their eyes and return to their God. (Calmet)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily VIII
3. For such is the nature of sin, that it betrays whilst no one finds fault; it condemns whilst no one accuses; it makes the sinner a timid being; one that trembles at a sound; even as righteousness has the contrary effect. Hear, at least, how the Scripture describes this cowardice of the former, and this boldness of the latter. “The wicked flee when no man pursueth.” How doth he flee when no man pursueth? He hath that within which drives him on, an accuser in his conscience; and this he carries about everywhere; and just as it would be impossible to flee from himself, so neither can he escape the persecutor within; but wherever he goeth, he is scourged, and hath an incurable wound! But not such is the righteous man. Of what nature then is he? Hear: “The righteous is bold as a lion!” Such a man was Elias. …