And the LORD said unto me,
Cast it unto the potter:
a princely price that I was valued at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The statuary. The Hebrew word signifies also a potter, (Challoner) and this seems to be the true meaning, Matthew xxvii. 3. The prophet is ordered to bring, thus to indicate what should be done by the traitor. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "cast them into the crucible to see if it (the metal) be good, as I have been tried by them. "(Haydock)