Genesis 41:51
And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vocavitque nomen primogeniti Manasses, dicens : Oblivisci me fecit Deus omnium laborum meorum, et domus patris mei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐκάλεσεν δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πρωτοτόκου Μαννασσὴ λέγων Ὅτι ἐπιλαθέσθαι με ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς πάντων τῶν πόνων μου καὶ πάντων τῶν τοῦ πατρός μου·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְרָ֥א יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶת שֵׁ֥ם הַבְּכ֖וֹר מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה כִּֽי נַשַּׁ֤נִי אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת כָּל עֲמָלִ֔י וְאֵ֖ת כָּל בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Manasses. That is, oblivion, or forgetting. (Challoner)
Father's house, or the injuries received from my brethren. (Haydock)
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 Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Salvina
2. As the mother of Nebridius was sister to the empress and as he was brought up in the bosom of his aunt, another might perhaps praise him for having so much endeared himself to the unvanquished emperor. Theodosius, indeed, procured him from Africa a wife of the highest rank, who, as her native land at this time was distracted by civil wars, became a kind of hostage for its loyalty. I ought to say at the very outset that Nebridius seems to have had a presentiment that he would die early. For amid the splendour of the palace and in the high positions to which his rank and not his years entitled him he lived always as one who believed that he must soon go to meet Christ. …