Daniel 11:37
And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et Deum patrum suorum non reputabit : et erit in concupiscentiis feminarum, nec quemquam deorum curabit, quia adversum universa consurget.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπὶ παντὸς θεοῦ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ οὐ συνήσει, καὶ ἐπιθυμίᾳ γυναικῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν θεὸν οὐ συνήσει· ὅτι ἐπὶ πάντας μεγαλυνθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַל אֱלֹהֵ֤י אֲבֹתָיו֙ לֹ֣א יָבִ֔ין וְעַל חֶמְדַּ֥ת נָשִׁ֛ים וְעַֽל כָּל אֱל֖וֹהַּ לֹ֣א יָבִ֑ין כִּ֥י עַל כֹּ֖ל יִתְגַּדָּֽל
Haydock's commentary
God. He laughed at religion, yet sometimes offered splendid presents and victims, which shewed his inconstancy. (Calmet)
Women. He kept many concubines, (Diod.) and committed the greatest obscenities publicly: mimis et scortis. (St. Jerome)
Hebrew may have quite a different sense. He had no regard for the sex, (Calmet) killing all indiscriminately. (Grotius)
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 Victorinus of Pettau Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John, From the seventeenth chapter
16. “These shall hate the whore, to wit, the city, and shall burn her flesh with fire.”] Now that one of the heads was, as it were, slain to death, and that the stroke of his death was directed, he speaks of Nero . For it is plain that when the cavalry sent by the senate was pursuing him, he himself cut his throat. Him therefore, when raised up, God will send as a worthy king, but worthy in such a way as the Jews merited. And since he is to have another name, He shall also appoint another name, that so the Jews may receive him as if he were the Christ. …
St John Damascene An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Concerning the Antichrist
It should be known that the Antichrist is bound to come. Every one, therefore, who confesses not that the Son of God came in the flesh and is perfect God and became perfect man, after being God, is Antichrist. But in a peculiar and special sense he who comes at the consummation of the age is called Antichrist. First, then, it is requisite that the Gospel should be preached among all nations, as the Lord said, and then he will come to refute the impious Jews. For the Lord said to them: I am come in My Father’s name and ye receive Me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive . And the apostle says, Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness . …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).