Deuteronomy 26:9
And brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et introduxit ad locum istum, et tradidit nobis terram lacte et melle manantem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσήγαγεν ἡμᾶς εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον, καὶ ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν τὴν γῆν ταύτην, γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְבִאֵ֖נוּ אֶל הַמָּק֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַיִּתֶּן לָ֨נוּ֙ אֶת הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את אֶ֛רֶץ זָבַ֥ת חָלָ֖ב וּדְבָֽשׁ
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian The Five Books Against Marcion, Sundry Features of the Prophetic Style: Principles of Its Interpretation
These preliminary remarks I have ventured to make at this first step of the discussion and while the conflict is, as it were, from a distance. But inasmuch as I shall now from this point have to grapple with my opponent on a distinct issue and in close combat, I perceive that I must advance even here some lines, at which the battle will have to be delivered; they are the Scriptures of the Creator. For as I shall have to prove that Christ was from the Creator, according to these (Scriptures), which were afterwards accomplished in the Creator’s Christ, I find it necessary to set forth the form and, so to speak, the nature of the Scriptures themselves, that they may not distract the reader’s attention by being called into controversy at the moment of their application to subjects of discussion, and by their proof being confounded with the proof of the subjects themselves. …