Ecclesiasticus 43:20
The eye admireth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the shower thereof.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pulchritudinem candoris ejus admirabitur oculus, et super imbrem ejus expavescet cor.
- Septuagint (Swete)
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Haydock's commentary
Shower, as if God were about to drown the world. The melting of snow occasions dreadful inundations. (Calmet)
Its whiteness sometimes deprives people of their sight. (Xenophon, Anab. iv.)
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
Origen Origen De Principiis, Chapter VIII
3. But perhaps this question is asked, If it be the understanding which prays and sings with the spirit, and if it be the same which receives both perfection and salvation, how is it that Peter says, “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls?” If the soul neither prays nor sings with the spirit, how shall it hope for salvation? or when it attains to blessedness, shall it be no longer called a soul? Let us see if perhaps an answer may be given in this way, that as the Saviour came to save what was lost, that which formerly was said to be lost is not lost when it is saved; so also, perhaps, this which is saved is called a soul, and when it has been placed in a state of salvation will receive a name from the Word that denotes its more perfect condition. …