Exodus 23:26
There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non erit infœcunda, nec sterilis in terra tua : numerum dierum tuorum implebo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἔσται ἄγονος οὐδὲ στεῖρα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς σου· τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν σου ἀναπληρώσω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹ֥א תִהְיֶ֛ה מְשַׁכֵּלָ֥ה וַעֲקָרָ֖ה בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ אֶת מִסְפַּ֥ר יָמֶ֖יךָ אֲמַלֵּֽא
Haydock's commentary
Fruitless. Hebrew may also be, "miscarrying."
Days. An untimely death was a judgment of God on the wicked, though sometimes he chooses to draw his elect quickly out of this dangerous world, Wisdom iv. 11.
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 Athanasius Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.), An hour and a time for all men
Now in so far as He was God and the Word of the Father, He had no time; for He is Himself the Creator of times. But being made man, He shews by speaking in this manner that there is a time allotted to every man; and that not by chance, as some of the Gentiles imagine in their fables, but a time which He, the Creator, has appointed to every one according to the will of the Father. This is written in the Scriptures, and is manifest to all men. For although it be hidden and unknown to all, what period of time is allotted to each, and how it is allotted; yet every one knows this, that as there is a time for spring and for summer, and for autumn and for winter, so, as it is written, there is a time to die, and a time to live. And so the time of the generation which lived in the days of Noah was cut short, and their years were contracted, because the time of all things was at hand. …