Daniel 8:10
And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.
Challoner: Unto the strength of heavenor, against the strength of heaven. So are here called the army of the Jews, the people of God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et magnificatum est usque ad fortitudinem cæli : et dejecit de fortitudine, et de stellis, et conculcavit eas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμεγαλύνθη ἕως τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἀπὸ τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἄστρων, καὶ συνεπάτησαν αὐτά,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתִּגְדַּ֖ל עַד צְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַתַּפֵּ֥ל אַ֛רְצָה מִן הַצָּבָ֥א וּמִן הַכּוֹכָבִ֖ים וַֽתִּרְמְסֵֽם
Haydock's commentary
Even unto, or against the strength of heaven. So are here called the army of the Jews, the people of God, (Challoner) and particularly the teachers. Many priests gave way to idolatry, 1 Machabees i. 48., and 2 Machabees iv. 14. (Calmet)
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.