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Zacharias 5:6

And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.

Challoner: This is their eyeThis is what they fix their eye upon: or this is a resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et dixi : Quidnam est ? Et ait : Hæc est amphora egrediens. Et dixit : Hæc est oculus eorum in universa terra.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ εἶπα Τί ἐστιν; καὶ εἶπεν Τοῦτο τὸ μέτρον τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον. καὶ εἶπεν Αὕτη ἡ ἀδικία αὐτῶν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.
Hebrew (WLC): וָאֹמַ֖ר מַה הִ֑יא וַיֹּ֗אמֶר זֹ֤את הָֽאֵיפָה֙ הַיּוֹצֵ֔את וַיֹּ֕אמֶר זֹ֥את עֵינָ֖ם בְּכָל הָאָֽרֶץ

Haydock's commentary

Vessel. Hebrew epha. (Calmet)

Eye. This is what they fix their eye upon, or this is a resemblance and figure of them, viz., of sinners. (Calmet)

Protestants, "resemblance." (Haydock)

This is their picture. (Calmet)

Septuagint, "wickedness;" áunom. (Haydock)

U is often mistaken for i. (St. Jerome) Yet here the Septuagint seems equally intelligible, ver. 8. (Haydock)

Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).

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.