4 Kings 4:2
And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cui dixit Eliseus : Quid vis ut faciam tibi ? dic mihi, quid habes in domo tua ? At illa respondit : Non habeo ancilla tua quidquam in domo mea, nisi parum olei quo ungar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἐλεισαῖε Τί ποιήσω σοι; τί ἔστιν σοι ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ; ἡ δὲ εἶπεν Οὐκ ἔστιν τῇ δούλῃ σου οὐθὲν ὅτι ἀλλ᾽ ἢ ὃ ἀλείψομαι ἔλαιον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלֶ֤יהָ אֱלִישָׁע֙ מָ֣ה אֶֽעֱשֶׂה לָּ֔ךְ הַגִּ֣ידִי לִ֔י מַה יֶּשׁ לכי בַּבָּ֑יִת וַתֹּ֗אמֶר אֵ֣ין לְשִׁפְחָתְךָ֥ כֹל֙ בַּבַּ֔יִת כִּ֖י אִם אָס֥וּךְ שָֽׁמֶן
Haydock's commentary
Anoint me, for delicacy or health, Matthew vi. 17. (Menochius)
To abstain from this unction, in the East, was a great mortification, 2 Kings xiv. 2., and Deuteronomy xxviii. 40. Sanctius supposes, that the woman intended the oil to anoint her body for interment, Matthew xxvi. 12. Hebrew asuc, occurs no where else, and my signify a pot, or "skin of oil." The woman had nothing else. The original does not say what she intended to do with it. (Calmet)
She might use it for food: (3 Kings xvii. 12.) but the Septuagint agree with the Vulgate. (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.