Exodus 1:2
Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ῥουβήν, Συμεών, Λευεί, Ἰούδας,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רְאוּבֵ֣ן שִׁמְע֔וֹן לֵוִ֖י וִיהוּדָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily I
[4.] But how shall a man find grace with God? How else, except by lowliness of mind? “For God, “saith one, (St. Jas. iv. 6 .) “resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble; and, ( Ps. li. 17 . τεταπεινωμένην .) the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit, and a heart that is brought low God will not despise.” For if with men humility is so lovely, much more with God. Thus both they of the Gentiles found grace and the Jews no other way fell from grace; ( Rom. x. 13 .) “for they were not subject unto the righteousness of God.” The lowly man of whom I am speaking, is pleasing and delightful to all men, and dwells in continual peace, and hath in him no ground for contentions. For though you insult him, though you abuse him, whatsoever you say, he will be silent and will bear it meekly, and will have so great peace towards all men as one cannot even describe. Yea, and with God also. …
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).