Jeremias 51:59
The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the prophecy.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verbum quod præcepit Jeremias propheta Saraiæ filio Neriæ filii Maasiæ, cum pergeret cum Sedecia rege in Babylonem, in anno quarto regni ejus : Saraias autem erat princeps prophetiæ.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:59
- Ὁ λόγος ὃν ἐνετείλατο Κύριος Ἰερεμίᾳ τῷ προφήτῃ εἰπεῖν τῷ Σαραίᾳ υἱῷ Νηρείου υἱῷ Μαασαίου, ὅτε ἐπορεύετο παρὰ Σαδεκίου βασιλέως Ἰούδα εἰς Βαβυλῶνα, ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ τετάρτῳ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ· καὶ Σαραίας ἄρχων δώρων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַדָּבָ֞ר אֲשֶׁר צִוָּ֣ה יִרְמְיָ֣הוּ הַנָּבִ֗יא אֶת שְׂרָיָ֣ה בֶן נֵרִיָּה֮ בֶּן מַחְסֵיָה֒ בְּלֶכְתּ֞וֹ אֶת צִדְקִיָּ֤הוּ מֶֽלֶךְ יְהוּדָה֙ בָּבֶ֔ל בִּשְׁנַ֥ת הָרְבִעִ֖ית לְמָלְכ֑וֹ וּשְׂרָיָ֖ה שַׂ֥ר מְנוּחָֽה
Haydock's commentary
With. Hebrew also, (Calmet) "on behalf of." (Protestant marginal note) (Haydock)
It is no where else asserted that Sedecias went in person, and Septuagint, Chaldean, &c., explain it in this manner. Baruch accompanied his brother Saraias, and probably took the letter, Baruch i. 2. Saraias went to petition for the sacred vessels.
Prophecy, or of the embassy to speak (Calmet) in the king's name. Hebrew menucha, was a caution of Benjamin. It means, "rest;" whence some have inferred that he was chamberlain, (Canticle of Canticles iii. 8.) or a favourite. Most translate, "chief of the presents," Septuagint and Chaldean, as if they they had read mincha, which he carried as a tribute to Babylon. Jeremias gave him charge of the parcel, perhaps before Baruch had determined to go.
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.