Wisdom 14:13
For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- neque enim erant ab initio, neque erunt in perpetuum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὔτε γὰρ ἦν ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, οὔτε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔσται·
Haydock's commentary
Beginning. Truth is always prior to falsehood. (Haydock)
Josephus (Jewish Antiquities i. 4.) says, idolatry commenced in the 8th generation, and the Jews assert, under Enos. "Then began the name of God to be profaned," as the Chaldean, &c., translate, Genesis iv. 26. (St. Jerome, q. Heb.)
The corruption of morals was the natural consequence, ver. 12.
Ever. Christ shall destroy them. (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.