Wisdom 2:7
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vino pretioso et unguentis nos impleamus, et non prætereat nos flos temporis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἴνου πολυτελοῦς καὶ μύρων πλησθῶμεν, καὶ μὴ παροδευσάτω ἡμᾶς ἄνθος ἀέρος·
Haydock's commentary
Time. Alexandrian Septuagint, "of spring." (Haydock)
Youth is the spring of life. The voluptuous conclude, from the transitory nature of things, that we should make use of them. Would it not be more rational to despise them? (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.