Judges 7:18
When the trumpet shall sound in my hand, do you also blow the trumpets on every side of the camp.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quando personuerit tuba in manu mea, vos quoque per castrorum circuitum clangite, et conclamate : Domino et Gedeoni.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ σαλπιῶ ἐν τῇ κερατίνῃ ἐγώ, καὶ πάντες μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ σαλπιεῖτε ἐν ταῖς κερατίναις κύκλῳ ὅλης τῆς παρεμβολῆς, καὶ ἐρεῖτε Τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ τῷ Γεδεών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְתָקַעְתִּי֙ בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר אָנֹכִ֖י וְכָל אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתִּ֑י וּתְקַעְתֶּ֨ם בַּשּׁוֹפָר֜וֹת גַּם אַתֶּ֗ם סְבִיבוֹת֙ כָּל הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לַיהוָ֥ה וּלְגִדְעֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Camp, and shout together to the Lord and to Gedeon: or rather "the sword of, &c., ver. 20. The war is the Lord's, victory to or by the hand of Gedeon," Chaldean. He is the minister of God's justice to punish Madian. (Menochius)
It is no derogation to God (Calmet) that honour is given to his servants. (Worthington)
Protestants supply the word which seems to be wanting. The sword of the Lord, &c. (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 Ephrem the Syrian Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene Hymns, Hymn LIX
1. Lo! Death for us on Satan, inflicts vengeance: come let us hear his shame and rejoice, for he rejoiced in our shame. 2. R., To Thee be glory from Thy flock, from Thee: are subdued both Death and Satan, under Thy Feet! 3. D ., Evil ones shall be hung upright, but thou, head downward: for, reversely, thou crucifiedst, Simon on the tree. 4. S ., Touching all else I am silent, Death, for my time wanes: Simon himself conjured me, “Crucify me thus.”, 5. Were it the just that cursed me, I had not grieved: the curse of Death unto me, is worse than hell. 6. D ., The shame of our Lord I have not spoken of, it is too great for my mouth: that I should weigh and compare His Passion, with Thy torment. 7. Twelve judgment thrones shall He set, for His Twelve: for by the twelve tribes thou, even thou, shall be condemned. 8. …