Canticles 1:8
To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Equitatui meo in curribus Pharaonis assimilavi te, amica mea.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Canticles 1:9
- Τῇ ἵππῳ μου ἐν ἅρμασιν Φαραὼ ὡμοίωσά σε, ἡ πλησίον μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 1:9
- לְסֻסָתִי֙ בְּרִכְבֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔ה דִּמִּיתִ֖יךְ רַעְיָתִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Company. Hebrew, "mare." Such were preferred, as more gentle and swift. Pharao had probably made his son-in-law a present of a magnificent chariot. Theocritus (xviii.) compares the beautiful Helena to a Thessalian horse in a chariot, so that this idea is not low, Genesis xlix. 14., and Osee x. 11. (Calmet)
Horsemen. Protestants, "horses." (Haydock)
Hebrew susa. Septuagint e ippos means also "cavalry," as well as a mare. The Church has nothing to fear. (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.