Exodus 12:26
And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et cum dixerint vobis filii vestri : Quæ est ista religio ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσται ἐὰν λέγωσιν πρὸς ὑμᾶς υἱοὶ ὑμῶν Τίς ἡ λατρία αὕτη;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָיָ֕ה כִּֽי יֹאמְר֥וּ אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם מָ֛ה הָעֲבֹדָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לָכֶֽם
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapter XI
“And the passover of the Jews was at hand.” Inquiring into the accuracy of the most wise John (on this passage), I put myself the question, What is indicated by the addition “of the Jews”? Of what other nation was the passover a festival? Would it not have been enough to say, “And the passover was at hand”? It may, however, be the case that the human passover is one thing when kept by men not as Scripture intended, and that the divine passover is another thing, the true passover, observed in spirit and truth by those who worship God in spirit and in truth; and then the distinction indicated in the text may be that between the divine passover and that said to be of the Jews. We should attend to the passover law and observe what the Lord says of it when it is first mentioned in Scripture. …
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).