Judges 14:10
So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Descendit itaque pater ejus ad mulierem, et fecit filio suo Samson convivium : sic enim juvenes facere consueverant.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατέβη ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα· καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖ Σαμψὼν πότον ζ᾽ ἡμέρας, ὅτι οὕτως ποιοῦσιν οἱ νεανίσκοι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֥רֶד אָבִ֖יהוּ אֶל הָאִשָּׁ֑ה וַיַּ֨עַשׂ שָׁ֤ם שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙ מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה כִּ֛י כֵּ֥ן יַעֲשׂ֖וּ הַבַּחוּרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Father. Before the nuptials, the young man was not accustomed to go to the house of his future bride. (Montanus)
Samson's mother also accompanied him. (Abulensis)
Do. Septuagint, "Samson made there a feast for seven days, because young men do so." (Haydock)
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 Irenaeus Fragments from the Lost Writings of, XL
“And he found the jaw-bone of an ass.” It is to be observed that, after [Samson had committed] fornication, the holy Scripture no longer speaks of the things happily accomplished by him in connection with the formula, “The Spirit of the Lord came upon him.” For thus, according to the holy apostle, the sin of fornication is perpetrated against the body, as involving also sin against the temple of God.