Numbers 10:4
If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si semel clangueris, venient ad te principes, et capita multitudinis Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δὲ ἐν μιᾷ σαλπίσωσιν, προσελεύσονται πρὸς σὲ πάντες οἱ ἄρχοντες, ἀρχηγοὶ Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאִם בְּאַחַ֖ת יִתְקָ֑עוּ וְנוֹעֲד֤וּ אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ הַנְּשִׂיאִ֔ים רָאשֵׁ֖י אַלְפֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Once. Hebrew, "with one trumpet." If both sounded together uniformly, the people assembled, ver. 7.
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 Ambrose On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus, Book II. On the Belief in the Resurrection
107. Let us, then, investigate what we read in the Old Testament concerning the kinds of trumpets, considering that those festivals which were enjoined on the Jews by the Law are the shadow of joys above and of heavenly festivals. For here is the shadow, there the truth. Let us endeavour to attain to the truth by means of the shadow. Of which truth the figure is expressed in this manner, where we read that the Lord said to Moses: “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a rest unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, it shall be called holy unto you. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).