“Erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem, et qui trahuntur ad interitum, liberare ne cesses.”
“If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;”
“Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.”
“Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!”
“Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back.”
Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did St. Stephen, &c. Our Saviour rescued the adulteress from such a situation, as Daniel had done Susanna. Yet this text may regard poor debtors, Psalm lxxi. 4. (Calmet) — Christian bishops used all their influence to preserve the lives of those who did not deserve death. (St. Ambrose in Psalm cxviii. Ser. viii. Off. i. 36., and ep. xxv., and xxvi.)
13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.