Jeremias 29:5
Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ædificate domos, et habitate : et plantate hortos, et comedite fructum eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 36:5
- Οἰκοδομήσατε οἴκους καὶ κατοικήσατε, καὶ φυτεύσατε παραδείσους καὶ φάγετε τοὺς καρποὺς αὐτῶν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בְּנ֥וּ בָתִּ֖ים וְשֵׁ֑בוּ וְנִטְע֣וּ גַנּ֔וֹת וְאִכְל֖וּ אֶת פִּרְיָֽן
Haydock's commentary
Build. Establish yourselves, as you must remain a long time in captivity. We are exhorted not to be attached to the things of the world, to remind us that we shall not live long, chap. xvi. 2., and xxxv. 7., and 1 Corinthians vii. 29.
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 Augustine On the Catechising of the Uninstructed, Of the Babylonish Captivity, and the Things Signified Thereby
37. “Howbeit, after the lapse of some generations, another type was presented, which bears very emphatically on the matter in hand. For that city was brought into captivity, and a large section of the people were carried off into Babylonia. Now, as Jerusalem signifies the city and fellowship of the saints, so Babylonia signifies the city and fellowship of the wicked, seeing that by interpretation it denotes confusion . On the sub ject of these two cities, which have been running their courses, mingling the one with the other, through all the changes of time from the beginning of the human race, and which shall so move on together until the end of the world, when they are destined to be separated at the last judgment, we have spoken already a little ago. …