Ecclesiasticus 51:27
I directed my soul to her, and in knowledge I found her.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- animam meam direxi ad illam, et in agnitione inveni eam.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Ecclesiasticus 51:20
- τὴν ψυχήν μου κατεύθυνα εἰς αὐτήν, καρδίαν ἐκτησάμην μετ᾽ αὐτῶν ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, καὶ ἐν καθαρισμῷ εὗρον αὐτήν· διὰ τοῦτο οὐ μὴ ἐγκαταλειφθῶ.
Haydock's commentary
Knowledge. Greek (Alexandrian), "time of harvest." Grabe substitutes, "in purification," (Haydock) or the practice of virtue, Wisdom i. 4.
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.