Judges 5:10
Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in judgment, and walk in the way.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui ascenditis super nitentes asinos, et sedetis in judicio, et ambulatis in via, loquimini.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπιβεβηκότες ἐπὶ ὄνου θηλείας μεσημβρίας, καθήμενοι ἐπὶ κριτηρίου καὶ πορευόμενοι ἐπὶ ὁδοὺς συνέδρων ἐφ᾽ ὁδῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רֹכְבֵי֩ אֲתֹנ֨וֹת צְחֹר֜וֹת יֹשְׁבֵ֧י עַל מִדִּ֛ין וְהֹלְכֵ֥י עַל דֶּ֖רֶךְ שִֽׂיחוּ
Haydock's commentary
Fair asses. Hebrew, "shining, white, or of divers colours, particularly red and white, with which the people were accustomed to paint their asses. (Bochart)
The rich Arabians paint the back part red. (Tavernier iii. 5.)
The Persians also give a yellowish hue to their horses as well as to themselves, with henna. (Chardin.)
Asses and mules were formerly much more in use than horses, Numbers xxii. 21., Matthew xxi. 25., and 3 Kings i. 33. (Calmet)
Way. You who can now proceed on your journey without molestation, join the judges of the land in sounding forth God's praises, ver. 6. (Haydock)
Those who bring the flesh into subjection to the spirit, ride upon fair asses, (Origen, hom. vi.; Worthington) and they may preach to others with more authority. (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.