Deuteronomy 7:25
Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sculptilia eorum igne combures : non concupisces argentum et aurum, de quibus facta sunt, neque assumes ex eis tibi quidquam, ne offendas, propterea quia abominatio est Domini tui :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὰ γλυπτὰ τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν καύσετε ἐν πυρί· οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν· οὐ λήμψῃ σεαυτῷ, μὴ πταίσῃς δι᾽ αὐτό, ὃτι βδέλυγμα Κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σού ἐστιν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- פְּסִילֵ֥י אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖ם תִּשְׂרְפ֣וּן בָּאֵ֑שׁ לֹֽא תַחְמֹד֩ כֶּ֨סֶף וְזָהָ֤ב עֲלֵיהֶם֙ וְלָקַחְתָּ֣ לָ֔ךְ פֶּ֚ן תִּוָּקֵ֣שׁ בּ֔וֹ כִּ֧י תוֹעֲבַ֛ת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ הֽוּא
Haydock's commentary
Graven things. Idols, so called by contempt. (Challoner)
Made. Hebrew, "gold (plates) on them," to cover the wood, &c. See ver. 5.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Letter XLVII
3. Again, if from the threshing-floor or wine-press of a Christian anything be taken, with his knowledge, to be offered to false gods, he is guilty in permitting this to be done, if it be in his power to prevent it. If he finds that it has been done, or has not the power to prevent it, he uses without scruple the rest of the grain or wine, as uncontaminated, just as we use fountains from which we know that water has been taken to be used in idol-worship. The same principle decides the question about baths. For we have no scruple about inhaling the air into which we know that the smoke from all the altars and incense of idolaters ascends. …