1 Kings 7:4
Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and served the Lord only.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Abstulerunt ergo filii Israël Baalim et Astaroth, et servierunt Domino soli.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ περιεῖλον οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ τὰς Βααλεὶμ καὶ τὰ ἄλση Ἀσταρώθ, καὶ ἐδούλευσαν Κυρίῳ μόνῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּסִ֨ירוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶת הַבְּעָלִ֖ים וְאֶת הָעַשְׁתָּרֹ֑ת וַיַּעַבְד֥וּ אֶת יְהוָ֖ה לְבַדּֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Basil The Letters, To the Cæsareans. A defence of his withdrawal, and concerning the faith
3. We in accordance with the true doctrine speak of the Son as neither like, nor unlike the Father. Each of these terms is equally impossible, for like and unlike are predicated in relation to quality, and the divine is free from quality. We, on the contrary, confess identity of nature and accepting the consubstantiality, and rejecting the composition of the Father, God in substance, Who begat the Son, God in substance. From this the consubstantiality is proved. For God in essence or substance is co-essential or con-substantial with God in essence or substance. But when even man is called “god” as in the words, “I have said ye are gods,” and “dæmon” as in the words, “The gods of the nations are dæmons,” in the former case the name is given by favour, in the latter untruly. God alone is substantially and essentially God. …