Isaias 9:16
And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down headlong.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erunt qui beatificant populum istum, seducentes ; et qui beatificantur, præcipitati.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσονται οἱ μακαρίζοντες τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον πλανῶντες, καὶ πλανῶσιν ὅπως καταπίνωσιν αὐτούς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Isaias 9:15
- וַיִּֽהְי֛וּ מְאַשְּׁרֵ֥י הָֽעָם הַזֶּ֖ה מַתְעִ֑ים וּמְאֻשָּׁרָ֖יו מְבֻלָּעִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Headlong. If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch, Matthew xv. 14. (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 Gregory Nazianzen In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office
56. Why should I enter into detail? He lived not to himself, but to Christ and his preaching. He crucified the world to himself, and being crucified to the world and the things which are seen, he thought all things little, and too small to be desired; even though from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum he had fully preached the Gospel, even though he had been prematurely caught up to the third heaven, and had a vision of Paradise, and had heard unspeakable words. Such was Paul, and everyone of like spirit with him. …