Ecclesiasticus 49:18
And his bones were visited, and after death they prophesied.
Challoner: They prophesiedThat is, by their being carried out of Egypt they verified the prophetic prediction of Joseph. Gen. 50.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ossa ipsius visitata sunt, et post mortem prophetaverunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
They prophesied. That is, by their being carried out of Egypt, they verified the prophetic prediction of Joseph, Genesis l. (Challoner) (Carriers.)
This sentence is omitted in Greek. (Haydock)
See chap. xlviii. 14.
Joseph had intimated that the Israelites should leave Egypt. (Worthington)
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.