Zacharias 12:13
The families of the house of Nathan apart, and their women apart: the families of the house of Levi apart, and their women apart: the families of Semei apart, and their women apart.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- familiæ domus Nathan seorsum, et mulieres eorum seorsum : familiæ domus Levi seorsum, et mulieres eorum seorsum : familiæ Semei seorsum, et mulieres eorum seorsum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φυλὴ οἴκου Λευεὶ καθ᾽ ἑαυτήν, καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν καθ᾽ ἑαυτάς· φυλὴ τοῦ Συμεὼν καθ᾽ ἑαυτήν, καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν καθ᾽ ἑαυτάς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מִשְׁפַּ֤חַת בֵּית לֵוִי֙ לְבָ֔ד וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֖ם לְבָ֑ד מִשְׁפַּ֤חַת הַשִּׁמְעִי֙ לְבָ֔ד וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֖ם לְבָֽד
Haydock's commentary
Nathan. Zorobabel was his descendant.
Semei, the son of Gershom, 1 Paralipomenon vi. 16. (Calmet)
"From this tribe the doctors are chosen." (St. Jerome)
The pious of all ranks bewail the death of Christ, and the share which they had in it. (Haydock)
He had done good to many; and therefore we may presume that many would grieve in every tribe. (Menochius)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Justin Martyr The First Apology, Chapter LII. Certain fulfilment of
Since, then, we prove that all things which have already happened had been predicted by the prophets before they came to pass, we must necessarily believe also that those things which are in like manner predicted, but are yet to come to pass, shall certainly happen. For as the things which have already taken place came to pass when foretold, and even though unknown, so shall the things that remain, even though they be unknown and disbelieved, yet come to pass. …
St Augustine Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter V. 20-23
13. By all means there is a sense, a true and strong sense, if somehow we can grasp it, in which “the Father judgeth not any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.” For this is said because none will appear to men in the judgment but the Son. The Father will be hidden, the Son will be manifest. In what will the Son be manifest? In the form in which He ascended. For in the form of God He was hidden with the Father; in the form of a servant, manifest to men. Not therefore “the Father judgeth any man, but all judgment hath He given to the Son:” only the manifest judgment, in which manifest judgment the Son will judge, since the same will appear to them that are to be judged. The Scripture shows us more clearly that it is the Son that will appear. …