Osee 14:6
I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ero quasi ros ; Israël germinabit sicut lilium, et erumpet radix ejus ut Libani.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔσομαι ὡς δρόσος τῷ Ἰσραήλ, ἀνθήσει ὡς κρίνον, καὶ βαλεῖ τὰς ῥίζας αὐτοῦ ὡς ὁ Λίβανος·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶהְיֶ֤ה כַטַּל֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִפְרַ֖ח כַּשּֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑ה וְיַ֥ךְ שָׁרָשָׁ֖יו כַּלְּבָנֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Dew. Israel has been like a plant dried up, chap. xiii. 15.
Libanus. The cedars were tall and bulky, being well rooted.
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 Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter IV. The Unity of God is necessarily implied in the order of Nature, in the Faith, and in Baptism. The gifts of the Magi declare (1) the Unity of the Godhead; (2) Christ's Godhead and Manhood. The truth of the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity is shown in the Angel walking in the midst of the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
33. This is our Faith. Thus did God will that He should be known by all, thus believed the three children, and felt not the fire into the midst whereof they were cast, which destroyed and burnt up unbelievers, whilst it fell harmless as dew upon the faithful, for whom the flames kindled by others became cold, seeing that the torment had justly lost its power in conflict with faith. For with them there was One in the form of an angel, comforting them, to the end that in the number of the Trinity one Supreme Power might be praised. God was praised, the Son of God was seen in God’s angel, holy and spiritual grace spake in the children.