Judith 16:26
And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man all the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Erat enim virtuti castitas adjuncta, ita ut non cognosceret virum omnibus diebus vitæ suæ, ex quo defunctus est Manasses vir ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:22
- καὶ πολλοὶ ἐπεθύμησαν αὐτήν, καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω ἀνὴρ αὐτὴν πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς αὐτῆς, ἀφ᾽ ἧς ἡμέρας ἀπέθανεν Μανασσῆς ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς καὶ προσετέθη πρὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ.
Haydock's commentary
Chastity. Greek, "many desired to have her, (Haydock; in marriage.; Worthington) but no man knew her," &c. (Haydock)
She again practised the same mortifications which she had done before. (Suidas) (Calmet)
Husband. Greek adds, "when he was removed to his people. And proceeding, (to the temple, or advancing in age) she was very great, and she grew old in her," &c. (Haydock)
She probably went up to Jerusalem at the great festivals. (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.