Amos 5:27
And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et migrare vos faciam trans Damascum, dicit Dominus : Deus exercituum nomen ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ μετοικιῶ ὑμᾶς ἐπέκεινα Δαμασκοῦ, λέγει Κύριος, ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὄνομα αὐτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִגְלֵיתִ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מֵהָ֣לְאָה לְדַמָּ֑שֶׂק אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Damascus, or Babylon, (Acts vii.) into Mesopotamia, &c. The sense is the same. (Calmet)
When the apostles quote passages, "they do not consider the words but the sense." (St. Jerome)
One Greek copy, however, has Damascus in the Acts. (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.