Ecclesiasticus 44:22
Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he should increase as the dust of the earth,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ideo jurejurando dedit illi gloriam in gente sua, crescere illum quasi terræ cumulum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
In his. Greek, "that the nations should be blessed in his posterity."
Dust. Literally, "a heap." (Haydock) (Genesis xii. 2., and xxii. 17.)
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.