Zacharias 12:2
Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of surfeiting to all the people round about: and Juda also shall be in the siege against Jerusalem.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce ego ponam Jerusalem superliminare crapulæ omnibus populis in circuitu : sed et Juda erit in obsidione contra Jerusalem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ τίθημι τὴν Ἰερουσαλὴμ ὡς πρόθυρα σαλευόμενα πᾶσι τοῖς λαοῖς κύκλῳ, καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἔσται περιοχὴ ἐπὶ Ἰερουσαλήμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִנֵּ֣ה אָ֠נֹכִי שָׂ֣ם אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם סַף רַ֛עַל לְכָל הָעַמִּ֖ים סָבִ֑יב וְגַ֧ם עַל יְהוּדָ֛ה יִֽהְיֶ֥ה בַמָּצ֖וֹר עַל יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
Haydock's commentary
A lintel of surfeiting. That is, a door into which they shall seek to enter, to glut themselves with blood: but they shall stumble, and fall like men stupified with wine. It seems to allude to the times of Antiochus, and to the victories of the Machabees. (Challoner)
Yet it indirectly relates to the last siege of Jerusalem, and to Jesus Christ establishing his Church. Hebrew, "a cup of drowsiness," or trembling. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "as courts (or thresholds; prothura) shaken." (Haydock)
Jerusalem first drank the cup herself; and then under the Machabees, made others suffer.
Juda. Never before Epiphanes had the Jews fought against their brethren. Then the apostates became most terrible, 1 Machabees i. 55., and ii. 7, 19. (Calmet)
Thus none persecute the Catholic faith more than those who have perfidiously abandoned it. (Haydock)
When the gospel began to be preached, the obstinate Jews opposed it, Acts iv., &c. (Worthington)
Where a note speaks of the Jewish people, the Church teaches that the Passion cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).
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.