Exodus 1:13
And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- oderantque filios Israël Ægyptii, et affligebant illudentes eis,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατεδυνάστευον οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ βίᾳ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּ מִצְרַ֛יִם אֶת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּפָֽרֶךְ
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book IV, Chapter XXX. Refutation of another
2. Up to that time the people served the Egyptians in the most abject slavery, as saith the Scripture: “And the Egyptians exercised their power rigorously upon the children of Israel; and they made life bitter to them by severe labours, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field which they did, by all the works in which they oppressed them with rigour.” And with immense labour they built for them fenced cities, increasing the substance of these men throughout a long course of years, and by means of every species of slavery; while these [masters] were not only ungrateful towards them, but had in contemplation their utter annihilation. …
Origen Origen's Commentary on Matthew, Chapter X
“ And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received the half-shekel came to Peter. ” There are certain kings of the earth, and the sons of these do not pay toll or tribute; and there are others, different from their sons, who are strangers to the kings of the earth, from whom the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute. And among the kings of the earth, their sons are free as among fathers; but those who are strangers to them, while they are free in relation to things beyond the earth, are as slaves in respect of those who lord it over them and keep them in bondage; as the Egyptians lorded it over the children of Israel, and greatly afflicted their life and violently held them in bondage. …