Isaias 7:12
And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixit Achaz : Non petam, et non tentabo Dominum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἀχάζ Οὐ μὴ αἰτήσω, οὐδὲ μὴ πειράσω Κύριον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָחָ֑ז לֹא אֶשְׁאַ֥ל וְלֹֽא אֲנַסֶּ֖ה אֶת יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Lord. He was afraid of being forced to relinquish his evil ways. (St. Jerome)
Though an idolater, he knew he ought not to tempt God.
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 Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book III, Chapter XXI. A vindication of the
4. For the one and the same Spirit of God, who proclaimed by the prophets what and of what sort the advent of the Lord should be, did by these elders give a just interpretation of what had been truly prophesied; and He did Himself, by the apostles, announce that the fulness of the times of the adoption had arrived, that the kingdom of heaven had drawn nigh, and that He was dwelling within those that believe on Him who was born Emmanuel of the Virgin. …