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Ecclesiasticus 50:27

There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is no nation, which I hate:

Challoner: AbhorrethViz., with a holy indignation, as enemies of God and persecutors of his people. Such were then the Edomites who abode in mount Seir, the Philistines, and the Samaritans who dwelt in Sichem, and had their schismatical temple in that neighbourhood.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Duas gentes odit anima mea : tertia autem non est gens quam oderim :
Septuagint (Swete): Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

Abhorreth. Viz., with a holy indignation as enemies of God and persecutors of his people. Such were then the Edomites, who abode in Mount Seir, the Philistines, and the Samaritans, who dwelt in Sichem, and had their schismatical temple in that neighbourhood. (Challoner)

This was the source of continual dissensions. (Josephus, [Jewish Antiquities?] xi. 8., and xii. 2.) (John iv. 20.)

The Jews and Samaritans are still at variance. The former, in the days of Esdras, pronounced a curse against the latter, forbidding any of them to become converts to their religion, (Grotius) which, if true, shews a very blameable malice. See Deuteronomy xxvii. 4. (Haydock)

Which, &c., is omitted in Greek. These three nations had evinced the greatest hatred towards the Jews, and thus deserved to be accounted objects of horror, though if the author harboured any ill-will, his conduct is not praised, (Calmet) but only recorded. (Haydock)

The Samaritans consisted of Assyrians, Jews, &c., and therefore are styled no nation; and they were foolish in mixing idolatry with the true worship. (Worthington)

Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).

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.