3 Kings 18:3
And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vocavitque Achab Abdiam dispensatorem domus suæ : Abdias autem timebat Dominum valde.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἀχαὰβ τὸν Ἀβδειοὺ τὸν οἰκονόμον· καὶ Ἀβδειοὺ ἦν φοβούμενος τὸν κύριον σφόδρα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְרָ֣א אַחְאָ֔ב אֶל עֹבַדְיָ֖הוּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל הַבָּ֑יִת וְעֹבַדְיָ֗הוּ הָיָ֥ה יָרֵ֛א אֶת יְהוָ֖ה מְאֹֽד
Haydock's commentary
Abdias. Some suppose that he was the fourth of the minor prophets, or the husband of the Sunamitess, (4 Kings iv.) or the third of the captains, who were ordered by Ochozias to seize Elias, 4 Kings i. 13. (Tirinus)
But this is uncertain. He took care of the persecuted prophets, (ver. 4, 13.) judging it better to obey God than man. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, Paula and Eustochium to Marcella
13. But what are we doing? Forgetting what is required of us, we are taken up with what we wish. Will the time never come when a breathless messenger shall bring the news that our dear Marcella has reached the shores of Palestine, and when every band of monks and every troop of virgins shall unite in a song of welcome? In our excitement we are already hurrying to meet you: without waiting for a vehicle, we hasten off at once on foot. We shall clasp you by the hand, we shall look upon your face; and when, after long waiting, we at last embrace you, we shall find it hard to tear ourselves away. Will the day never come when we shall together enter the Saviour’s cave, and together weep in the sepulchre of the Lord with His sister and with His mother? Then shall we touch with our lips the wood of the cross, and rise in prayer and resolve upon the Mount of Olives with the ascending Lord. …