Amos 5:4
For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia hæc dicit Dominus domui Israël : Quærite me, et vivetis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διότι τάδε λέγει Κύριος πρὸς τὸν οἶκον Ἰσραήλ Ἐκζητήσατέ με, καὶ ζήσεσθε·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֖ה לְבֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל דִּרְשׁ֖וּנִי וִֽחְיֽוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book X, Chapter XX
29. How, then, do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul, and my soul liveth by Thee. How, then, do I seek a happy life, seeing that it is not mine till I can say, “It is enough!” in that place where I ought to say it? How do I seek it? Is it by remembrance, as though I had forgotten it, knowing too that I had forgotten it? or, longing to learn it as a thing unknown, which either I had never known, or had so forgotten it as not even to remember that I had forgotten it? Is not a happy life the thing that all desire, and is there any one who altogether desires it not? But where did they acquire the knowledge of it, that they so desire it? Where have they seen it, that they so love it? Truly we have it, but how I know not. …