Wisdom 14:28
For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aut enim dum lætantur insaniunt, aut certe vaticinantur falsa, aut vivunt injuste, aut pejerant cito.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἢ γὰρ εὐφραινόμενοι μεμήνασιν, ἢ προφητεύουσιν ψευδῆ, ἢ ζῶσιν ἀδίκως, ἢ ἐπιορκοῦσιν ταχέως·
Haydock's commentary
Mad. Like the Bacchanalian women, running crowned with serpents, and eating raw flesh.
Lies. The delusions of the devil, or the fraud of priests.
Easily. Those who believe not in religion, or in the power of him by whom they swear, can give no security by an oath. They fear no harm, ver. 29. Yet they are perjured if they believe Jupiter, for example, to be a god, (St. Augustine, ep. 54. ad Pub.) and if they do not, they are impious; abusing an oath, which is in itself sacred. (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.