Ecclesiasticus 38:1
Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Honora medicum propter necessitatem : etenim illum creavit Altissimus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Honour and pay, Proverbs viii. 9. (Calmet)
Greek adds, "with his fees." (Haydock)
The health of body and soul must be regarded. (Worthington)
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
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chapter VIII. On the Use of Ointments and Crowns
The rubbing of the feet also with the fatness of warming or cooling unguents is practiced on account of its beneficial effects; so consequently, in the case of those who are thus saturated, an attraction and flow take place from the head to the inferior members. But pleasure to which no utility attaches, induces the suspicion of meretricious habits, and is a drug provocative of the passions. Rubbing one’s self with ointment is entirely different from anointing one’s self with ointment. The former is effeminate, while anointing with ointment is in some cases beneficial. …