Ezechiel 40:2
In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain: upon which there was as the building of a city, bending towards the south.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In visionibus Dei adduxit me in terram Israël, et dimisit me super montem excelsum nimis, super quem erat quasi ædificium civitatis vergentis ad austrum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν ὁράσει θεοῦ εἰς τὴν γῆν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἔθηκέν με ἐπ᾽ ὄρος ὑψηλὸν σφόδρα, καὶ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ ὡσεὶ οἰκοδομὴ πόλεως ἀπέναντι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בְּמַרְא֣וֹת אֱלֹהִ֔ים הֱבִיאַ֖נִי אֶל אֶ֣רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיְנִיחֵ֗נִי אֶל הַ֤ר גָּבֹ֨הַּ֙ מְאֹ֔ד וְעָלָ֥יו כְּמִבְנֵה עִ֖יר מִנֶּֽגֶב
Haydock's commentary
Mountain; Moria, in spirit. On the eastern side, the road to the city was level. Walls were added after the captivity, on the other sides. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.)
City, the temple was so large.
South, to one coming from the north, though the temple lay on that side of the town, Psalm xlvii. 2. (Calmet)
Septuagint read mongod, "over-against," instead of mongob, "south," which has perplexed many. (Houbigant)
Ezechiel was placed on Sion, which was not very high, but here it denotes the Church. Jerusalem was in ruins. (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.