Zacharias 1:10
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered, and said: These are they, whom the Lord hath sent to walk through the earth.
Challoner: These are theyThe guardian angels of provinces and nations.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et respondit vir qui stabat inter myrteta, et dixit : Isti sunt quos misit Dominus ut perambulent terram.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἐφεστηκὼς ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὀρέων καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς μέ Οὗτοί εἰσιν οὓς ἐξαπέστειλεν Κύριος περιοδεῦσαι τὴν γῆν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֗עַן הָאִ֛ישׁ הָעֹמֵ֥ד בֵּין הַהַדַסִּ֖ים וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אֵ֚לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁלַ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה לְהִתְהַלֵּ֖ךְ בָּאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
These are they, &c. The guardian angels of provinces and nations. (Challoner)
The Jews believed that each nation had such an angel, who had to give an account to one in higher authority. God proportions his revelation to their ideas.
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.