Exodus 22:12
But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss good to the owner.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod si furto ablatum fuerit, restituet damnum domino ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δὲ κλαπῇ παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ, ἀποτίσει τῷ κυρίῳ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Exodus 22:11
- וְאִם גָּנֹ֥ב יִגָּנֵ֖ב מֵעִמּ֑וֹ יְשַׁלֵּ֖ם לִבְעָלָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Stealth, of the person to whom it was entrusted, or by his connivance, as the Hebrew mámu, (de cum eo) "from with him," intimates. (Menochius)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Victorinus of Pettau On the Creation of the World
On the fifth day the land and water brought forth their progenies. On the sixth day the things that were wanting were created; and thus God raised up man from the soil, as lord of all the things which He created upon the earth and the water. Yet He created angels and archangels before He created man, placing spiritual beings before earthly ones. For light was made before sky and the earth. This sixth day is called parasceve, that is to say, the preparation of the kingdom. For He perfected Adam, whom He made after His image and likeness. But for this reason He completed His works before He created angels and fashioned man, lest perchance they should falsely assert that they had been His helpers. On this day also, on account of the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ , we make either a station to God, or a fast. …