Ecclesiasticus 46:18
And he was known to be faithful in his words, because he saw the God of light:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et cognitus est in verbis suis fidelis, quia vidit Deum lucis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Because. Greek has not faithful, or what follows. (Calmet)
Yet Grabe's copy retains pistos oraseos, "faithful in seeing" into futurity; so that his predictions were always verified, and he acquired the confidence of all, 1 Kings iii. 20. Prophets were formerly styled seers: yet they could not behold God, as he inhabits light inaccessible, 1 Timothy vi. 16. (Haydock)
Light. St. James (i. 17.) seems to allude to this passage. (Menochius)
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.