Ecclesiasticus 50:1
Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Simon, Oniæ filius, sacerdos magnus, qui in vita sua suffulsit domum, et in diebus suis corroboravit templum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Simon I was "styled the just, on account of his piety towards God, and his good-will to his countrymen." (Josephus, [Jewish Antiquities] xii. 2.) Many apply what follows to him. (Eusebius; Salien; Menochius, &c.)
But Simon II is more probably meant, who opposed the entrance of Philopator into the sanctuary, after he had offered sacrifice for him, in the pompous manner here described. (Bossuet) (iii. Machabees) (Calmet)
Temple. Which began to want repairs. (Menochius)
Simon II reigned twenty years. (Calmet) (Josephus, [Jewish Antiquities?] xii. 4.) (Haydock)
The first lived in the time of Ptolemy I of Egypt, when this book was written; and dies before it was translated, under Ptolemy III, about three hundred years before Christ. (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.