Ecclesiasticus 46:3
How great glory did he gain when he lifted up his hands, and stretched out swords against the cities?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quam gloriam adeptus est in tollendo manus suas, et jactando contra civitates rhomphæas !
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Hands. To pray, (Vatable) or fight, (Bossuet) or to give a signal, Josue viii. 26. (Cornelius a Lapide)
Stretched. Literally, threw (Haydock) darts, romphœas.
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.