Osee 9:12
And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod etsi enutrierint filios suos, absque liberis eos faciam in hominibus ; sed et væ eis cum recessero ab eis !
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διότι καὶ ἐὰν ἐκθρέψωσιν τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, ἀτεκνωθήσονται ἐξ ἀνθρώπων· διότι καὶ οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς ἐστιν, σάρξ μου ἐξ αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י אִם יְגַדְּלוּ֙ אֶת בְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְשִׁכַּלְתִּ֖ים מֵֽאָדָ֑ם כִּֽי גַם א֥וֹי לָהֶ֖ם בְּשׂוּרִ֥י מֵהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
When. Septuagint Theodotion, "my flesh is taken from them," which Theodoret, Lyranus, &c., explain of the incarnation; but Aquila, &c., agree with the Vulgate which is more natural. (Calmet)
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 John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV, Chapter IX. Of the care with which a monk should preserve the recollection of God
I should say then that the saints who keep a firm hold of the recollection of God and are borne along, as it were, with their steps suspended on a line stretched out on high, may be rightly compared to rope dancers, commonly called funambuli, who risk all their safety and life on the path of that very narrow rope, with no doubt that they will immediately meet with a most dreadful death if their foot swerves or trips in the very slightest degree, or goes over the line of the course in which alone is safety. …