Ecclesiasticus 51:36
Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess abundance of gold by her.
Open Ecclesiasticus 51:36 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Assumite disciplinam in multo numero argenti, et copiosum aurum possidete in ea.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Ecclesiasticus 51:28
- μετάσχετε παιδείαν ἐν πολλῷ ἀριθμῷ ἀργυρίου, καὶ πολὺν χρυσὸν κτήσασθε ἐν αὐτῇ·
Haydock's commentary
Gold. The wise man has more opportunities of enriching himself than others; but he despises unnecessary wealth. (Calmet)
We must labour for wisdom more than for riches, and we shall be rewarded hereafter. (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.