Judges 14:20
But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for her husband.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- uxor autem ejus accepit maritum unum de amicis ejus et pronubis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγένετο ἡ γυνὴ Σαμψὼν ἑνὶ τῶν φίλων αὐτοῦ ὧν ἐφιλίασεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתְּהִ֖י אֵ֣שֶׁת שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן לְמֵ֣רֵעֵ֔הוּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר רֵעָ֖ה לֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Companions, the chief friend of the bridegroom, (John iii. 29,) the paranymph. (St. Ambrose) (Calmet)
Protestants, "But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend." It seems her father had supposed, from Samson's keeping away for a long time, that he had abandoned her. (Haydock)
But, though he offered some sort of recompense, (Menochius) he justly fell a victim to the people's rage, who abhorred adultery, (Calmet) and were irritated at the persecution which he had brought upon them, chap. xv. 2, 6. (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.