Proverbs 4:3
For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nam et ego filius fui patris mei, tenellus et unigenitus coram matre mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- υἱὸς γὰρ ἐγενόμην κἀγὼ πατρὶ ὑπήκοος καὶ ἀγαπώμενος ἐν προσώπῳ μητρός,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּי בֵ֭ן הָיִ֣יתִי לְאָבִ֑י רַ֥ךְ וְ֝יָחִ֗יד לִפְנֵ֥י אִמִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
As. This is not expressed. (Haydock)
But Solomon was not the only son of Bethsabee, as St. Luke (iii. 23.) specifies Nathan, his brother. See 2 Kings xii. 24. Septuagint have "beloved in," &c.
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.