Wisdom 10:2
And she brought him out of his sin, and gave him power to govern all things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et eduxit illum a delicto suo, et dedit illi virtutem continendi omnia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔδωκέν τε αὐτῷ ἰσχὺν κρατῆσαι ἁπάντων.
Haydock's commentary
Sin. Hence it is clear, that our first parent repented, (Worthington) and was saved, Genesis v. 5. (St. Irenæus iii. 34.; St. Augustine, ep. xcix. ad Evod.; Cornelius a Lapide) (Calmet)
Things. Before sin, he submitted willingly; but afterwards, he was forced to use all his ingenuity to preserve this dominion.
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 Letter CLXIV
6. As to the first man, the father of mankind, it is agreed by almost the entire Church that the Lord loosed him from that prison; a tenet which must be believed to have been accepted not without reason, from whatever source it was handed down to the Church, although the authority of the canonical Scriptures cannot be brought forward as speaking expressly in its support, though this seems to be the opinion which is more than any other borne out by these words in the book of Wisdom. Some add to this [tradition] that the same favour was bestowed on the holy men of antiquity, on Abel, Seth, Noah and his house, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the other patriarchs and prophets, they also being loosed from those pains at the time when the Lord descended into hell.