Zacharias 5:7
And behold a talent of lead was carried, and behold a woman sitting in the midst of the vessel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ecce talentum plumbi portabatur, et ecce mulier una sedens in medio amphoræ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἰδοὺ τάλαντον μολίβου ἐξαιρόμενον· καὶ ἰδοὺ μία γυνὴ ἐκάθητο ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ μέτρου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִנֵּ֛ה כִּכַּ֥ר עֹפֶ֖רֶת נִשֵּׂ֑את וְזֹאת֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה אַחַ֔ת יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּת֥וֹךְ הָאֵיפָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Talent, or weight, (Haydock) called a stone, ver. 8.
Vessel, like the idol Canopus.
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
Origen Origen's Commentary on Matthew, Chapter X
Next we must speak in regard to this, “ And when he had begun to reckon, there was brought unto him one which owed many talents. ” The sense of this appears to me to be as follows: The season of beginning the judgment is with the house of God, who says, as also it is written in Ezekiel, to those who are appointed to attend to punishments, “Begin ye with My saints;” and it is like “the twinkling of an eye;” but, the time of making a reckoning includes the same “twinkling,” ideally apprehended, for we are not forgetful of what has been previously said of those who owe more. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew XI. 25, 26
But if even after all this, virtue seem to thee an irksome thing, consider that vice is more irksome. And this very thing He was intimating, in that He said not first, “Take my yoke upon you,” but before that, “Come, ye that labor and are heavy laden;” implying that sin too hath labor, and a burden that is heavy and hard to bear. For He said not only, “Ye that labor,” but also, “that are heavy laden.” This the prophet too was speaking of, when in that description of her nature, “As an heavy burden they weighed heavy upon me.” And Zacharias too, describing her, saith she is “A talent of lead.”