Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Faciant filii Israël Phase in tempore suo,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἰπὸν καὶ ποιείτωσαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ τὸ πάσχα καθ᾽ ὥραν αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְיַעֲשׂ֧וּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת הַפָּ֖סַח בְּמוֹעֲדֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Make the Phase. That is, keep the paschal solemnity, and eat the paschal lamb.
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 Athanasius Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life, For 331. Easter-day xvi Pharmuthi; iii Id. April; Æra Dioclet. 47; Coss. Annius Bassus, Ablabius; Præfect, Florentius; Indict. iv
Again , my beloved brethren, the day of the feast draws near to us, which, above all others, should be devoted to prayer, which the law commands to be observed, and which it would be an unholy thing for us to pass over in silence. For although we have been held under restraint by those who afflict us, that, because of them, we should not announce to you this season; yet thanks be to ‘God, who comforteth the afflicted,’ that we have not been overcome by the wickedness of our accusers and silenced; but obeying the voice of truth, we together with you cry aloud in the day of the feast. …