Wisdom 11:19
Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- aut novi generis ira plenas ignotas bestias, aut vaporem ignium spirantes, aut fumi odorem proferentes, aut horrendas ab oculis scintillas emittentes ;
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Wisdom 11:18
- ἢ νεοκτίστους θυμοῦ πλήρεις θῆρας ἀγνώστους, ἤτοι πυρπνόον φυσῶντας ἆσθμα, ἤ βρόμους λικμωμένους καπνοῦ, ἢ δεινοὺς ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων σπινθῆρας ἀστράπτοντας,
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Caph
82. “Mine eyes,” he saith, “have failed for Thy word, saying, O when wilt Thou comfort me?” ( ver. 82 ). Behold that praiseworthy and blessed failing, in the eyes again, but his inner eyes, not arising from infirmity of mind, but from the strength of his longing for the promise of God: for this he saith, “for Thy word.” But in what sense can such eyes say, “When wilt Thou comfort me?” save when we pray and groan with such earnestness and ardent expectation? For the tongue, not the eyes, is wont to speak: but in some sense the voice of the eyes is the longing of prayer. But in the words, “When wilt Thou comfort me?” he showeth that he endureth as it were delay. …