Ecclesiasticus — Chapter 50
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
This Simon called Iustus, and Priscus, was high Priest when this booke was written, a very holie man, dead before it was translated into Greeke about 300 yeares before Christ.
Verse 22
Three nations; the Idumeans, Philistimes, and Samaritans, did most persecute the Israelites.
Verse 27
They are also called a foolish people, because they knowing true religion mixed idolatrie therwith.