Osee 4:8
They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Peccata populi mei comedent, et ad iniquitatem eorum sublevabunt animas eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἁμαρτίας λαοῦ μου φάγονται, καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν λήμψονται τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חַטַּ֥את עַמִּ֖י יֹאכֵ֑לוּ וְאֶל עֲוֺנָ֖ם יִשְׂא֥וּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Sins: victims. (Worthington)
Iniquity; or "they seek for support in their propitiatory offerings," and lull the people asleep in their sins. The priests of the golden calf imitated the sacred rites of Moses. It would have been too difficult to make the people change altogether.
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 Augustine The Enchiridion, Christ, Who Was Himself Free from Sin, Was Made Sin for Us, that We Might Be Reconciled to God
Begotten and conceived, then, without any indulgence of carnal lust, and therefore bringing with Him no original sin, and by the grace of God joined and united in a wonderful and unspeakable way in one person with the Word, the Only-begotten of the Father, a son by nature, not by grace, and therefore having no sin of His own; nevertheless, on account of the likeness of sinful flesh in which He came, He was called sin, that He might be sacrificed to wash away sin. For, under the Old Covenant, sacrifices for sin were called sins. And He, of whom all these sacrifices were types and shadows, was Himself truly made sin. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, 1 Timothy 5.8
This is hospitality, this is truly to do it for God’s sake. But if you give orders with pride, though you bid him take the first place, it is not hospitality, it is not done for God’s sake. The stranger requires much attendance, much encouragement, and with all this it is difficult for him not to feel abashed; for so delicate is his position, that whilst he receives the favor, he is ashamed. That shame we ought to remove by the most attentive service, and to show by words and actions, that we do not think we are conferring a favor, but receiving one, that we are obliging less than we are obliged. So much does good will multiply the kindness. For as he who considers himself a loser, and thinks that he is doing a favor, destroys all the merit of it; so he who looks upon himself as receiving a kindness, increases the reward. “For God loveth a cheerful giver.” ( 2 Cor. ix. …