Wisdom 18:23
For when they were now fallen down dead by heaps one upon another, he stood between and stayed the assault, and cut off the way to the living.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum enim jam acervatim cecidissent super alterutrum mortui, interstitit, et amputavit impetum, et divisit illam quæ ad vivos ducebat viam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σωρηδὸν γὰρ ἤδη πεπτωκότων ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλων νεκρῶν, μεταξὺ στὰς ἀνέκοψε τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ διέσχισεν τὴν πρὸς τοὺς ζῶντας ὁδόν.
Haydock's commentary
Living. Whom the angel was prevented from attacking, Numbers xvi. 47. (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.