1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Matthew 27:9 | Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias, the prophet, saying: *And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they prized of the children of Israel. Zacharias 11:12. | Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias. Jeremias is now in all Latin copies, and the general reading of the Greek; whereas the passage is found in Zacharias 11:12. Some judge it to have been in some writing of Jeremias, now lost; as St. Jerome says he found it in a writing of Jeremias, which was not canonical. Others conjecture, that Zacharias had also the name of Jeremias. Others, that St. Matthew neither put Jeremias nor Zacharias, but only of the prophet: and that the name of Jeremias had crept into the text. Jeremias is not in the Syrica[Syriac?]; and St. Augustine says it was not in divers copies. --- And they took the thirty pieces of silver; each of which was called an argenteus. The evangelist cites not the words, but the sense of the prophet, who was ordered to cast the pieces into the house of the Lord, and to cast them to the potter:{ Ver. 9. Zacharias 11:13. projice illud ad staturium, decorum pretium. ... Et projeci illos in domum Domini ad statuarium; where the Hebrew word signifies, ad figulum.|} which became true by the fact of Judas, who cast them into the temple: and with them was purchased the potter's field. The price of him that was prized. In the prophet we read, the handsome price, spoken ironically, as the Lord did appoint me; that is as he had decreed. (Witham) |