Ezechiel 20:14
But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et feci propter nomen meum, ne violaretur coram gentibus de quibus ejeci eos in conspectu earum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησα ὅπως τὸ ὄνομά μου τὸ παράπαν μὴ βεβηλωθῇ ἐνώπιον τῶν ἐθνῶν ὧν ἐξήγαγον αὐτοὺς κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וָאֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה לְמַ֣עַן שְׁמִ֑י לְבִלְתִּ֤י הֵחֵל֙ לְעֵינֵ֣י הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹצֵאתִ֖ים לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
But. Literally, "And I did for," &c. This motive caused me to spare them. (Haydock)
I punished only the most guilty adorers of the calf, and murmurers, &c., Numbers xiv. 28. (Calmet)
Some were always preserved for a succession, ver. 9, 22. (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.