Numbers 11:14
I am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non possum solus sustinere omnem hunc populum, quia gravis est mihi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ δυνήσομαι ἐγὼ μόνος φέρειν τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον, ὅτι βαρύτερόν μοί ἐστιν τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹֽא אוּכַ֤ל אָנֹכִי֙ לְבַדִּ֔י לָשֵׂ֖את אֶת כָּל הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֥י כָבֵ֖ד מִמֶּֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
For me. Had he not the judges, whom Jethro advised him to appoint? But all matters of consequence were still brought to Moses. He was made answerable for all things.
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 John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XIV on Acts v. 34
But let us look over again what has been spoken. “Ye men of Israel take heed to yourselves.”(Recapitulation, v. 35 .) See here, I pray you, how mildly Gamaliel reasons, and how he says but a few words to them, and does not recount ancient histories, although he might have done so, but more recent instances, which are most powerful to produce belief. With this view he throws out a hint himself, saying, “For before these days” ( v. 36 ): meaning, not many days before. Now had he at once said, “Let these men go,” both himself would have fallen into suspicion, and his speech would not have been so effective: but after the examples, it acquired its own proper force. And he mentions not one instance, but a second also: “for,” saith the Scripture, “in the mouth of two witnesses” ( Matt. xviii. 16 ): and yet he had it in his power to mention even three. “Refrain from these men.” ( v. …