3 Kings — Chapter 21
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
If no subiect were Lord of anie land, but only at the Kings pleasure, and Kings were proper Lords of al the lands in their Kingdomes, then Achab might haue taken Naboths vineyard. Neither was it a vaine scruple in Naboth, to conserwe his ancestors inheritance. For both his deniall is here iustified, and Achabs extortion condemned. S. Ambrose li. 2. offic. c. 9.
Verse 3
To auoid horrour of blasphemie holie Scripture often vseth the terme blessing for cursing.