Aggeus 2:12
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law, saying:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum : Interroga sacerdotes legem, dicens :
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Aggeus 2:11
- Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ Ἐπερώτησον τοὺς ἱερεῖς νόμον λέγων
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Aggeus 2:11
- כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת שְׁאַל נָ֧א אֶת הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים תּוֹרָ֖ה לֵאמֹֽר
Haydock's commentary
The law. "He who knows it not, shews himself to be no priest of the Lord," Deuteronomy xvii. (St. Jerome)
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, To Paulinus
3. I do not adduce these instances because I have anything in me from which you either can or will learn a lesson, but to show you that your zeal and eagerness to learn, even though you cannot rely on help from me, are in themselves worthy of praise. A mind willing to learn deserves commendation even when it has no teacher. What is of importance to me is not what you find but what you seek to find. Wax is soft and easy to mould even where the hands of craftsman and modeller are wanting to work it. It is already potentially all that it can be made. …