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George Leo Haydock, on Neh 5:2
George Leo Haydock · 1774–1849
Neh 5:2 · Douay-Rheims
“And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: Yet us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.”
On this verse:
“Very. Syriac, “and our brethren are too numerous” to find meat. — For, &c. Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., “by force.” (Abenezra, &c.) — Yet most people explain it in the sense of the Vulgate. It was permitted to sell children in extreme distress, Exodus xxi. 7. (Grotius) (Calmet)”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.