Osee 2:17
And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore ejus, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξαρῶ τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν Βααλεὶμ ἐκ στόματος αὐτῆς, καὶ οὐ μὴ μνησθῶσιν οὐκέτι τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Osee 2:19
- וַהֲסִרֹתִ֛י אֶת שְׁמ֥וֹת הַבְּעָלִ֖ים מִפִּ֑יהָ וְלֹֽא יִזָּכְר֥וּ ע֖וֹד בִּשְׁמָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Baalim. It is the plural number of Baal; for there were divers idols of Baal. (Challoner)
The Jews hence styled Esbaal, Isboseth; as boseth means "confusion," 1 Paralipomenon viii. 33.
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
Tertullian On Idolatry, Of Schoolmasters and Their Difficulties
Moreover, we must inquire likewise touching schoolmasters; nor only of them, but also all other professors of literature. Nay, on the contrary, we must not doubt that they are in affinity with manifold idolatry: first , in that it is necessary for them to preach the gods of the nations, to express their names, genealogies, honourable distinctions, all and singular; and further , to observe the solemnities and festivals of the same, as of them by whose means they compute their revenues. What schoolmaster, without a table of the seven idols, will yet frequent the Quinquatria? The very first payment of every pupil he consecrates both to the honour and to the name of Minerva; so that, even though he be not said “to eat of that which is sacrificed to idols” nominally (not being dedicated to any particular idol), he is shunned as an idolater. …