Jeremias 39:11
Now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had given charge to Nabuzardan the general concerning Jeremias, saying:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Præceperat autem Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis de Jeremia Nabuzardan magistro militum, dicens :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint's Jeremias lacks Douay 39:4 to 13: Sedecias's flight and capture, the burning of Jerusalem, the exile, and the king's order to look after Jeremias.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְצַ֛ו נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל עַֽל יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ בְּיַ֛ד נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֥ן רַב טַבָּחִ֖ים לֵאמֹֽר
Haydock's commentary
Had given, after the prisoners had got to Rama, chap. xl. 1.
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 I
33. “Granted,” says Jovinianus, “that there is a difference between marriage and virginity, what have you to say to this, Suppose a virgin and a widow were baptized, and continued as they were, what difference will there be between them?” What we have already said concerning Peter and John, Anna and Mary, may be of service here. For if there is no difference between a virgin and a widow, both being baptized, because baptism makes a new man, upon the same principle harlots and prostitutes, if they are baptized, will be equal to virgins. If previous marriage is no prejudice to a baptized widow, and past pleas ures and the exposure of their bodies to public lust are no detriment in the case of harlots, once they have approached the laver they will gain the rewards of virginity. …