Jeremias 38:26
Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of Jonathan, to die there.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- dices ad eos : Prostravi ego preces meas coram rege, ne me reduci juberet in domum Jonathan, et ibi morerer.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 45:26
- καὶ ἐρεῖς αὐτοῖς Ῥίπτω ἐγὼ τὸν ἔλεόν μου κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς τοῦ βασιλέως πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἀποστρέψαι με εἰς οἰκίαν Ἰωναθὰμ ἀποθανεῖν ἐκεῖ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם מַפִּיל אֲנִ֥י תְחִנָּתִ֖י לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ לְבִלְתִּ֧י הֲשִׁיבֵ֛נִי בֵּ֥ית יְהוֹנָתָ֖ן לָמ֥וּת שָֽׁם
Haydock's commentary
There. This he had actually done, chap. xxxvii. 19. He perhaps renewed the petition, at this interview, to satisfy the king. (Haydock)
We may conceal the truth, but must never speak what is false. (Calmet)
"In a matter, says Puffendorf, which I am not obliged to declare to another, if I cannot with safety conceal the whole, I may fairly discover no more than a part." Who can require a privy counsellor to reveal the king's secret? Yet Paine accuses the prophet of duplicity! (Watson)
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.