Josue 7:19
And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ait Josue ad Achan : Fili mi, da gloriam Domino Deo Israël, et confitere, atque indica mihi quid feceris, ne abscondas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς τῷ Ἀχάρ Δὸς δόξαν σήμερον τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ δὸς τὴν ἐξομολόγησιν καὶ ἀνάγγειλόν μοι τί ἐποίησας, καὶ μὴ κρύψῃς ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַ אֶל עָכָ֗ן בְּנִי֙ שִֽׂים נָ֣א כָב֗וֹד לַֽיהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְתֶן ל֣וֹ תוֹדָ֑ה וְהַגֶּד נָ֥א לִי֙ מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֔יתָ אַל תְּכַחֵ֖ד מִמֶּֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
My son. Clemency is the virtue of great souls.
Give glory. Confess candidly, John ix. 24.
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 John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 2:17-22
Where then there is such impiety as this going on, what dreadful calamity must we not expect? And to be assured how sore vengeance they incur who are guilty of such sins as these, consider the examples of old. One single man, a common soldier, stole the sacred property, and all were smitten. Ye know, doubtless, the history I mean? I am speaking of Acham the son of Carmi, the man who stole the consecrated spoil. ( Joshua vii. 1-26 .) The time too when the Prophet spoke, was a time when their country was full of soothsayers, like that of the Philistines. ( Isa. ii. 6 .) Whereas now there are evils out of number at the full, and not one fears. Oh, henceforth let us take the alarm. …