Genesis 50:1
And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father's face weeping and kissing him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod cernens Joseph, ruit super faciem patris, flens et deosculans eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπιπεσὼν Ἰωσὴφ ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἔκλαυσεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּפֹּ֥ל יוֹסֵ֖ף עַל פְּנֵ֣י אָבִ֑יו וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ עָלָ֖יו וַיִּשַּׁק לֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Kissing him, as it was then the custom, in testimony of an ardent affection. (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
The Apostolic Constitutions Book VI, Sec. VI. Conclusion of the Work
XXX . Do not therefore keep any such observances about legal and natural purgations, as thinking you are defiled by them. Neither do you seek after Jewish separations, or perpetual washings, or purifications upon the touch of a dead body. But without such observations assemble in the dormitories, reading the holy books, and singing for the martyrs which are fallen asleep, and for all the saints from the beginning of the world, and for your brethren that are asleep in the Lord, and offer the acceptable Eucharist, the representation of the royal body of Christ, both in your churches and in the dormitories; and in the funerals of the departed, accompany them with singing, if they were faithful in Christ. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).