Judges 3:17
And he presented the gifts to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceeding fat.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Obtulitque munera Eglon regi Moab. Erat autem Eglon crassus nimis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ προσήνεγκεν τὰ δῶρα Ἐγλὼμ βασιλεῖ Μωάβ· καὶ Ἐγλὼμ ἀνὴρ ἀστεῖος σφόδρα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּקְרֵב֙ אֶת הַמִּנְחָ֔ה לְעֶגְל֖וֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֑ב וְעֶגְל֕וֹן אִ֥ישׁ בָּרִ֖יא מְאֹֽד
Haydock's commentary
Fat. The ancient version used by St. Augustine had, "lean," which he justly took in an ironical sense. Septuagint asteios, signifies "beautiful and genteel." (Calmet)
Serarius explains it in the same sense as the Vulgate. (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.