Zacharias 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, shall they live always?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Patres vestri, ubi sunt ? et prophetæ numquid in sempiternum vivent ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, ποῦ εἰσιν; καὶ οἱ προφῆται, μὴ τὸν αἰῶνα ζήσονται;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם אַיֵּה הֵ֑ם וְהַ֨נְּבִאִ֔ים הַלְעוֹלָ֖ם יִֽחְיֽוּ
Haydock's commentary
Always. He seems to hint, that after Malachias prophets would be sent no more till Christ should appear; or, that God's word should be fulfilled (ver. 6.) though the prophets were dead. (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.