Commentary on Habakkuk

Jerome (342–420)

Commentaries on the Prophet Habakkuk in Two Books by S. Eusebius Hieronymus of Stridon, a Presbyter, for Chromatius.

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

Translated into English using ChatGPT.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Book One

1:1-2

1:3-4

1:5

1:6-11

1:12

1:13-14

1:15-17

2:1

2:2-4

2:5-8

2:9

2:12-14

2:15-17

2:18

2:19-20

Book Two

3:1

3:3

3:4

3:5

3:6

3:7

3:8-9

3:10

3:11-13

3:14-16

3:17

3:18-19

Prologue

First, Chromatius, most learned bishop, it is fitting for us to know that the name Ambacum, which is read corruptly among the Greeks and Latins, is called Habakkuk among the Hebrews, and it means embrace; or, if we were to translate it more significantly into Greek, it would be περίληψις, that is, embrace. Then, where the Seventy translators and Symmachus and Theodotion interpreted the word λῆμμα as assumption, in Hebrew it is expressed as Massa, which Aquila translates as weight: about which we have discussed more fully in the prophet Nahum. However, mass is never mentioned in the title, unless it seems to be a serious and weighty matter. Therefore, it is necessary for the present prophecy to have some degree of severity, just as in the case of the prophecy against the city of…

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