Josue 5:3
He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fecit quod jusserat Dominus, et circumcidit filios Israël in colle præputiorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησεν Ἰησοῦς μαχαίρας πετρίνας ἀκροτόμους, καὶ περιέτεμεν τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ τοῦ καλουμένου τόπου Βουνὸς τῶν ἀκροβυστιῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּעַשׂ ל֥וֹ יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ חַֽרְב֣וֹת צֻרִ֑ים וַיָּ֨מָל֙ אֶת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל גִּבְעַ֖ת הָעֲרָלֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
Hill, at Galgal. Josue took care to have this ceremony performed. (Calmet)
Perhaps he circumcised some himself, as Abraham did those of his own house, Genesis xvii. 23. (Menochius)
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 Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xii. 32, ‘Whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.’ Or, ‘on the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.’
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St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
After this Paula visited the tomb of Lazarus and beheld the hospitable roof of Mary and Martha, as well as Bethphage, ‘the town of the priestly jaws.’ Here it was that a restive foal typical of the Gentiles received the bridle of God, and covered with the garments of the apostles offered its lowly back for Him to sit on. From this she went straight on down the hill to Jericho thinking of the wounded man in the gospel, of the savagery of the priests and Levites who passed him by, and of the kindness of the Samaritan, that is, the guardian, who placed the half-dead man upon his own beast and brought him down to the inn of the church. She noticed the place called Adomim or the Place of Blood, so-called because much blood was shed there in the frequent incursions of marauders. …