Ecclesiasticus 51:6
From the oppression of the flame which surrounded me, and in the midst of the fire I was not burnt.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- a pressura flammæ quæ circumdedit me, et in medio ignis non sum æstuatus ;
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Ecclesiasticus 51:4
- ἀπὸ πνιγμοῦ πυρᾶς κυκλόθεν καὶ ἐκ μέσου πυρὸς οὗ οὐκ ἐξέκαυσα,
Haydock's commentary
In. Greek, "from the midst of a fire which I did not enkindle," or deserve by any crime.
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.