Ecclesiasticus 46:20
And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made his voice to be heard.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et intonuit de cælo Dominus, et in sonitu magno auditam fecit vocem suam :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On Care to Be Had for the Dead, Section 18
18. So then we must confess that the dead indeed do not know what is doing here, but while it is in doing here: afterwards, however, they hear it from those who from hence go to them at their death; not indeed every thing, but what things those are allowed to make known who are suffered also to remember these things; and which it is meet for those to hear, whom they inform of the same. It may be also, that from the Angels, who are present in the things which are doing here, the dead do hear somewhat, which for each one of them to hear He judgeth right to Whom all things are subject. For were there not Angels, who could be present in places both of quick and dead, the Lord Jesus had not said, “It came to pass also that the poor man died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom.” Therefore, now here, now there, were they able to be, who from hence bore thither whom God willed. …