Genesis 44:4
And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way; Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Jamque urbem exierant, et processerant paululum : tunc Joseph accersito dispensatore domus, Surge, inquit, et persequere viros : et apprehensis dicito : Quare reddidistis malum pro bono ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξελθόντων δὲ αὐτῶν τὴν πόλιν οὐκ ἀπέσχον μακράν, καὶ Ἰωσὴφ εἶπεν τῷ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ λέγων Ἀναστὰς ἐπιδίωξον ὀπίσω τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ καταλήμψῃ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐρεῖς αὐτοῖς Τί ὅτι ἀνταπεδώκατέ μοι πονηρὰ ἀντὶ καλῶν; ἵνα τί ἐκλέψατέ μου τὸ κόνδυ τὸ ἀργυροῦν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֵ֠ם יָֽצְא֣וּ אֶת הָעִיר֮ לֹ֣א הִרְחִיקוּ֒ וְיוֹסֵ֤ף אָמַר֙ לַֽאֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל בֵּית֔וֹ ק֥וּם רְדֹ֖ף אַחֲרֵ֣י הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֑ים וְהִשַּׂגְתָּם֙ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵהֶ֔ם לָ֛מָּה שִׁלַּמְתֶּ֥ם רָעָ֖ה תַּ֥חַת טוֹבָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Pursue; escorted by a troop of horsemen, to prevent resistance. (Menochius)
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 Hippolytus The Refutation of All Heresies, Chapter III
For, says he, it is necessary that the magnitudes be declared, and that they thus be declared by all everywhere, “in order that hearing they may not hear, and seeing they may not see.” For if, he says, the magnitudes were not declared, the world could not have obtained consistence. These are the three tumid expressions (of these heretics), Caulacau , Saulasau, Zeesar , i.e., Adam, who is farthest above; Saulasau , that is, the mortal one below; Zeesar , that is, Jordan that flows upwards. This, he says, is the hermaphrodite man (present) in all. But those who are ignorant of him, call him Geryon with the threefold body, Geryon, i.e., as if (in the sense of) flowing from earth, but (whom) the Greeks by common consent (style) “celestial horn of the moon,” because he mixed and blended all things in all. …