Wisdom 18:3
Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.
Challoner: A harmless sunA light that should not hurt or molest them; but that should be an agreeable guest to them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propter quod ignis ardentem columnam ducem habuerunt ignotæ viæ, et solem sine læsura boni hospitii præstitisti.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνθ᾽ ὧν πυριφλεγῆ στύλον, ὁδηγὸν μὲν ἀγνώστου ὁδοιπορίας, ἥλιον δὲ ἀβλαβῆ φιλοτίμου ξενιτείας παρέσχες.
Haydock's commentary
Therefore. "Instead of those things, " (Greek) darkness and complaints, (Haydock) God led away his people in triumph. (Habacuc iii. 3.)
A harmless sun. A light that should not hurt or molest them; but that should be an agreeable guest to them; (Challoner) or the desert should receive them, where they should be provided with food. (Menochius)
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.