Judith 16:12
The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Horruerunt Persæ constantiam ejus, et Medi audaciam ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:10
- ἔφριξαν Πέρσαι τὴν τόλμαν αὐτῆς, καὶ Μῆδοι τὸ θράσος αὐτῆς ἐρράχθησαν.
Haydock's commentary
Medes. This is the first mention of these two nations, who afterwards became so famous. Nabuchodonosor had overcome Phraortes, chap. i. (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.