Wisdom 19:4
For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ducebat enim illos ad hunc finem digna necessitas ; et horum quæ acciderant commemorationem amittebant, ut quæ deerant tormentis repleret punitio :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἷλκεν γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἡ ἀξία ἐπὶ τοῦτο πέρας ἀνάγκη, καὶ τῶν συμβεβηκότων ἀμνηστίαν ἐνέβαλεν, ἵνα τὴν λείπουσαν ταῖς βασάνοις προσαναπληρώσωσιν κόλασιν,
Haydock's commentary
Necessity. God permitted them to be blinded by their own obstinacy. (Calmet)
They rushed headlong into the channel of the Red Sea. (Haydock)
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.