4 Kings 6:7
And he said: Take it up. And he put out his hand and took it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et ait : Tolle. Qui extendit manum, et tulit illud.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἴρηκεν Ὕψωσον σαυτῷ· καὶ ἐξέτεινεν τὴν χεῖρα καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτό.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הָ֣רֶם לָ֑ךְ וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח יָד֖וֹ וַיִּקָּחֵֽהוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily IV
Again; the Greeks demand of us a rhetorical style, and the acuteness of sophistry. But preach we to these also the Cross: and that which, in the case of the Jews seemed to be weakness, this in the case of the Greeks is foolishness. Wherefore, when we not only fail in producing what they demand, but also produce the very opposites of their demand; (for the Cross has not merely no appearance of being a sign sought out by reasoning, but even the very annihilation of a sign; is not merely deemed no proof of power, but a conviction of weakness; not merely no display of wisdom, but a suggestion of foolishness;), when therefore they who seek for signs and wisdom not only receive not the things which they ask, but even hear the contrary to what they desire, and then by means of contraries are persuaded; how is not the power of Him that is preached unspeakable? As if to some one tempest-tost and …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).