Judges 7:21
Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling they fled away.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- stantes singuli in loco suo per circuitum castrorum hostilium. Omnia itaque castra turbata sunt, et vociferantes ululantesque fugerunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔστησαν ἀνὴρ ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῷ κύκλῳ τῆς παρεμβολῆς, καὶ ἔδραμεν πᾶσα ἡ παρεμβολή, καὶ ἐσήμαναν καὶ ἔφυγαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ תַּחְתָּ֔יו סָבִ֖יב לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה וַיָּ֧רָץ כָּל הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֛ה וַיָּרִ֖יעוּ ויניסו
Haydock's commentary
Camp. Hence the Madianites made no doubt but a great army was in the midst of the camp, and began to cut in pieces all whom they met. (Calmet)
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. …