Exodus 21:18
If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si rixati fuerint viri, et percusserit alter proximum suum lapide vel pugno, et ille mortuus non fuerit, sed jacuerit in lectulo :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐὰν δὲ λοιδορῶνται δύο ἄνδρες καὶ πατάξωσιν τὸν πλησίον λίθῳ ἢ πυγμῇ, καὶ μὴ ἀποθάνῃ, κατακλιθῇ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν κοίτην,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְכִֽי יְרִיבֻ֣ן אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְהִכָּה אִישׁ֙ אֶת רֵעֵ֔הוּ בְּאֶ֖בֶן א֣וֹ בְאֶגְרֹ֑ף וְלֹ֥א יָמ֖וּת וְנָפַ֥ל לְמִשְׁכָּֽב
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On the Holy Trinity, Of the Appearance on Sinai. Whether the Trinity Spake in that Appearance or Some One Person Specially
26. But as far as concerns our present undertaking, neither on Mount Sinai do I see how it appears, by all those things which were fearfully displayed to the senses of mortal men, whether God the Trinity spake, or the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit severally. But if it is allowable, without rash assertion, to venture upon a modest and hesitating conjecture from this passage, if it is possible to understand it of one person of the Trinity, why do we not rather understand the Holy Spirit to be spoken of, since the Law itself also, which was given there, is said to have been written upon tables of stone with the finger of God, by which name we know the Holy Spirit to be signified in the Gospel. …