Ecclesiasticus 34:30
He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui baptizatur a mortuo, et iterum tangit eum, quid proficit lavatio illius ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- βαπτιζόμενος ἀπὸ νεκροῦ καὶ πάλιν ἁπτόμενος αὐτοῦ, τί ὠφέλησεν τῷ λουτρῷ αὐτοῦ;
Haydock's commentary
Dead. Literally, "is baptized by or from the dead;" baptizatur a mortuo. (Haydock)
St. Cyprian thought this text was peremptory against the baptism of heretics; and the Donatists were of the same opinion. They seem not to have read, if he touch him again, which entirely alters the meaning. St. Augustine admonishes them of this; though he explains it of the pagan rather than of the Jewish purifications, to which it refers, Numbers xix. 11. See St. Augustine, contra Cres. i. 24., and ii. 25., and contra Petil. i. 9., and St. Cyprian, ep. ad Quint. (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.