Ecclesiasticus 43:8
The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her perfection.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Mensis secundum nomen ejus est, crescens mirabiliter in consummatione.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Name. Meni is used for the moon, (Jeremias lxv. 11.) which resembles the Greek men, "month." This is also derived from mene, "the moon." We know not what Hebrew words were used, chap. vi. 23. The two former may both come from manah, "to divide."
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.