Wisdom 11:14
For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass.
Challoner: By their punishmentsThat is, that the Israelites had been benefited and miraculously favoured in the same kind, in which they had been punished.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum enim audirent per sua tormenta bene secum agi, commemorati sunt Dominum, admirantes in finem exitus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Wisdom 11:13
- ὅτε γὰρ ἤκουσαν διὰ τῶν ἰδίων κολάσεων εὐεργετουμένους αὐτούς, ᾔσθοντο τοῦ κυρίου.
Haydock's commentary
By their punishments, &c. That is, that the Israelites had been benefited and miraculously favoured in the same kind, in which they had been punished. (Challoner)
Benefited. After war, peace is more agreeable. (Worthington)
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.