Judges 13:2
Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Erat autem quidam vir de Saraa, et de stirpe Dan, nomine Manue, habens uxorem sterilem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἦν ἀνὴρ εἷς ἀπὸ Σαρὰλ ἀπὸ δήμου συγγενείας τοῦ Δανεὶ καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Μανῶε, καὶ γυνὴ αὐτῷ στεῖρα καὶ οὐκ ἔτεκεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִי֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶחָ֧ד מִצָּרְעָ֛ה מִמִּשְׁפַּ֥חַת הַדָּנִ֖י וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָנ֑וֹחַ וְאִשְׁתּ֥וֹ עֲקָרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יָלָֽדָה
Haydock's commentary
Saraa, in the confines of Juda and of Dan, ten miles north of Eleutheropolis. (Eusebius)
Manue seems to have resided in the country, near this town, ver. 25. (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 . …