Jeremias 28:13
Go, and tell Hananias: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast broken chains of wood, and thou shalt make for them chains of iron.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vade, et dices Hananiæ : Hæc dicit Dominus : Catenas ligneas contrivisti, et facies pro eis catenas ferreas.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 35:13
- Βάδιζε καὶ εἰπὸν πρὸς Ἁνανίαν λέγων Οὕτως εἶπεν Κύριος Κλοιοὺς ξυλίνους συνέτριψας, καὶ ποιήσω ἀντ᾽ αὐτῶν κλοιοὺς σιδηροῦς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הָלוֹךְ֩ וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ אֶל חֲנַנְיָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מוֹטֹ֥ת עֵ֖ץ שָׁבָ֑רְתָּ וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ תַחְתֵּיהֶ֖ן מֹט֥וֹת בַּרְזֶֽל
Haydock's commentary
Iron. Deuteronomy xxviii. 48. The rashness of Hananias brought a heavier punishment on his admirers, which is the lot of all who follow heresiarchs. (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 Against Jovinianus, Book II
37. About four hundred years have passed since the preaching of Christ flashed upon the world, and during that time in which His robe has been torn by countless heresies, almost the whole body of error has been derived from the Chaldæan, Syriac, and Greek languages. Basilides, the master of licentiousness and the grossest sensuality, after the lapse of so many years, and like a second Euphorbus, was changed by transmigration into Jovinian, so that the Latin tongue might have a heresy of its own. Was there no other province in the whole world to receive the gospel of pleasure, and into which the serpent might insinuate itself, except that which was founded by the teaching of Peter, upon the rock Christ? Idol temples had fallen before the standard of the Cross and the severity of the Gospel: now on the contrary lust and gluttony endeavour to overthrow the solid structure of the Cross. …