4 Kings 4:21
And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ascendit autem, et collocavit eum super lectulum hominis Dei, et clausit ostium : et egressa,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνήνεγκεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐκοίμισεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ἀπέκλεισεν κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξῆλθεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתַּ֨עַל֙ וַתַּשְׁכִּבֵ֔הוּ עַל מִטַּ֖ת אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַתִּסְגֹּ֥ר בַּעֲד֖וֹ וַתֵּצֵֽא
Haydock's commentary
Bed, esteeming it as a relic, (Haydock) or wishing to excite the man of God to pray for her child, and to conceal its death from her husband. (Menochius)
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 Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXI
17. But there is in some copies, “For I have not known literature.” Where some books have “trading,” there others “literature:” how they may accord is a hard matter to find out; and yet the discrepancy of interpreters perchance showeth the meaning, introduceth no error. Let us inquire then how to understand literature also, lest we offend grammarians in the same way as we did traders a little before: because a grammarian too may live honourably in his calling, and neither forswear nor lie. Let us examine then the literature which he hath not known, in whose mouth all the day long is the praise of God. …