Osee 8:10
But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sed et cum mercede conduxerint nationes, nunc congregabo eos, et quiescent paulisper ab onere regis et principum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο παραδοθήσονται ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. νῦν εἰσδέξομαι αὐτούς, καὶ κοπάσουσιν μικρὸν τοῦ χρίειν βασιλέα καὶ ἄρχοντας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- גַּ֛ם כִּֽי יִתְנ֥וּ בַגּוֹיִ֖ם עַתָּ֣ה אֲקַבְּצֵ֑ם וַיָּחֵ֣לּוּ מְּעָ֔ט מִמַּשָּׂ֖א מֶ֥לֶךְ שָׂרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Princes. Hebrew, "king of kings." This proud title was afterwards taken by the monarchs of Babylon and of Persia. Israel shall cease to pay taxes, having nothing left. They shall cease to be a people. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes." (Haydock)
They had none during the captivity, as they would not consult God before in their appointment, ver. 4. He speaks ironically. I will conduct them beyond the Euphrates, where they shall have nothing to pay for some time. (Calmet)
This wretched condition was of long continuance; (Tournemine) though short, if compared with their crimes. (Haydock)
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
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Wars
21. He said again: The saints of the Most High shall receive the Kingdom . What shall we say concerning this? Have the children of Israel received the Kingdom of the Most High? God forbid. Or has that people come upon the clouds of heaven? This has passed away from them. For Jeremiah said concerning them: Call them rejected silver, for the Lord has rejected them . Again he said: He will not again regard them . And Isaiah said concerning them: Pass by; pass by; approach not the defiled . And concerning the saints of the Most High (Daniel) said thus: They shall inherit the Kingdom for ever . For these rested a little from the burden of kings and princes , namely, from after the death of Antiochus till the sixty-two weeks were fulfilled. And the Son of Man came to free them and gather them together, but they did not receive Him. …
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Wars
23. And the holy People inherited an eternal Kingdom; the holy people who were chosen instead of the People. For He provoked them to jealousy with a people that was not a people. And with a foolish people He angered them . And He set free the holy people. For lo! every covenant of God is freed from the burden of kings and princes . For even if a man has served the heathen, as soon as ever he draws nigh unto the covenant of God, he is set free. But the Jews are toiling in bondage amongst the Gentiles. For thus he said about the Saints; They shall inherit the Kingdom that is beneath the heaven . …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).