4 Kings 4:32
Eliseus therefore went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ingressus est ergo Eliseus domum, et ecce puer mortuus jacebat in lectulo ejus :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Ἐλεισαῖε εἰς τὸν οἶκον, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὸ παιδάριον τεθνηκώς, κεκοιμισμένον ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֥א אֱלִישָׁ֖ע הַבָּ֑יְתָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנַּ֨עַר֙ מֵ֔ת מֻשְׁכָּ֖ב עַל מִטָּתֽוֹ
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. …