Wisdom 2:6
Come therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Venite ergo, et fruamur bonis quæ sunt, et utamur creatura tamquam in juventute celeriter.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δεῦτε οὖν καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν τῶν ὄντων ἀγαθῶν, καὶ χρησώμεθα τῇ κτίσει ὡς νεότητι σπουδαίως·
Haydock's commentary
Come. From the disbelief of future rewards and punishments proceeds the epicure's life. (Worthington)
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.