Exodus 25:37
Thou shalt make also seven lamps, and shalt set them upon the candlestick, to give light over against.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Facies et lucernas septem, et pones eas super candelabrum, ut luceant ex adverso.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ποιήσεις τοὺς λύχνους αὐτῆς ἑπτά· καὶ ἐπιθήσεις τοὺς λύχνους, καὶ φανοῦσιν ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς προσώπου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ אֶת נֵרֹתֶ֖יהָ שִׁבְעָ֑ה וְהֶֽעֱלָה֙ אֶת נֵ֣רֹתֶ֔יהָ וְהֵאִ֖יר עַל עֵ֥בֶר פָּנֶֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
Against. The table of proposition on the north, and that of perfumes in the middle, before the veil. (Tirinus)
The lamps might be detached from the rest, (Calmet) and were trimmed every evening to burn all night; but, in the day, four were extinguished. (Bonfrere)
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 Gregory Nazianzen On Pentecost
IV. And if we must also look at ancient history, I perceive that Enoch, the seventh among our ancestors, was honoured by translation. I perceive also that the twenty-first, Abraham, was given the glory of the Patriarchate, by the addition of a greater mystery. For the Hebdomad thrice repeated brings out this number. And one who is very bold might venture even to come to the New Adam, my God and Lord Jesus Christ, Who is counted the Seventy-seventh from the old Adam who fell under sin, in the backward genealogy according to Luke. And I think of the seven trumpets of Jesus, the son of Nave, and the same number of circuits and days and priests, by which the walls of Jericho were shaken down. …