“For she put off the apparel of her widowhood for the exaltation of those who were distressed in Israel. She anointed her face with ointment, bound her hair in a tiara, and took a linen garment to deceive him.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Men; soldiers. Calmet. 14:6. Genesis 14:24.—Titan. So the Septuagint renders Raphaim. 2 Kennicott. 5:18. The Greek translator of this work seems to have read the poets, who pretend that the Titans attempted to take heaven by storm. Calmet.—Neither such giants as those who lived before the flood, (Genesis 6) nor such as were seen after, (Numbers 13. Worthington.) attacked Holofernes. Bible.—Neither does the Vulgate give any authority to poetic fictions, but only adopts terms which are best understood. Tirinus. Saint Jerome in Amos verse 8.