Judges 13:16
And the angel answered him: If thou press me, I will not eat of thy bread: but if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord. And Manue knew not it was the angel of the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cui respondit angelus : Si me cogis, non comedam panes tuos : si autem vis holocaustum facere, offer illud Domino. Et nesciebat Manue quod angelus Domini esset.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ἄγγελος Κυρίου πρὸς Μανῶε Ἐὰν κατάσχῃς με, οὐ φάγομαι ἀπὸ τῶν ἄρτων σου· καὶ ἐὰν ποιήσῃς ὁλοκαύτωμα, τῷ κυρίῳ ἀνοίσεις αὐτό· ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνω Μανῶε ὅτι ἄγγελος Κυρίου αὐτός.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּאמֶר֩ מַלְאַ֨ךְ יְהוָ֜ה אֶל מָנ֗וֹחַ אִם תַּעְצְרֵ֨נִי֙ לֹא אֹכַ֣ל בְּלַחְמֶ֔ךָ וְאִם תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה עֹלָ֔ה לַיהוָ֖ה תַּעֲלֶ֑נָּה כִּ֚י לֹא יָדַ֣ע מָנ֔וֹחַ כִּֽי מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה הֽוּא
Haydock's commentary
Bread is put for all sorts of food. Angels eat none, Tobias xii. 19. (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
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Persecution
7. As to those that reproach us (saying): “Ye are persecuted and are not delivered,” let them be ashamed themselves, that at every time they have been persecuted, even for many years before they were delivered. They were made to serve in Egypt two hundred and twenty-five years. And the Midianites made Israel serve in the days of Barak and Deborah. The Moabites ruled over them in the days of Ehud; the Ammonites in the days of Jephthah; the Philistines in the days of Samson, and also in the days of Eli and of Samuel the Prophet; the Edomites in the days of Ahab; the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah. The king of Babylon uprooted them from their place and dispersed them; and after he had tried and persecuted them much, they did not amend, as He said to them: In vain have I smitten your sons, for they did not accept chastisement . …