Judges 8:13
And returning from the battle before the sun rising,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Revertensque de bello ante solis ortum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν Γεδεὼν υἱὸς Ἰωὰς ἀπὸ τῆς παρατάξεως ἀπὸ ἐπάνωθεν τῆς παρατάξεως Ἅρες.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֛שָׁב גִּדְע֥וֹן בֶּן יוֹאָ֖שׁ מִן הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה מִֽלְמַעֲלֵ֖ה הֶחָֽרֶס
Haydock's commentary
Sun-rising. It would seem as if all these exploits had been performed between midnight and sun-rising, in the month of May, which is quite incredible; and hence many translate, "the sun being up." Septuagint and Theodotion, "from the height or ascent of Hares," (the situation of which we know not,) or "of the mountains," (Aquila) or "woods," (Symmachus) or perhaps "from the eastward." (Calmet)
The Scripture does not, however, specify that all this took place in the space of six or seven hours, or of one night, but only that Gedeon came to Soccoth so early, as to take the magistrates unawares, being informed by a young man where they lived. This might probably happen on the second morning, after he had surprised the camp of the Madianites, at Jezrael. Protestants and Chaldean agree with the Vulgate, "before the sun was up." The other translations explain chares, as if it denoted the place or situation from which Gedeon was returning. (Haydock)
Described. The text may signify either that the boy marked them out, or that Gedeon took down a memorandum of their names. (Calmet)
He would not punish the innocent with the guilty. (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.