Exodus 21:33
If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si quis aperuerit cisternam, et foderit, et non operuerit eam, cecideritque bos aut asinus in eam,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐὰν δέ τις ἀνοίξῃ λάκκον ἢ λατομήσῃ, καὶ μὴ καλύψῃ αὐτόν, καὶ ἐμπέσῃ ἐκεῖ μόσχος ἢ ὄνος,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְכִֽי יִפְתַּ֨ח אִ֜ישׁ בּ֗וֹר א֠וֹ כִּֽי יִכְרֶ֥ה אִ֛ישׁ בֹּ֖ר וְלֹ֣א יְכַסֶּ֑נּוּ וְנָֽפַל שָׁ֥מָּה שּׁ֖וֹר א֥וֹ חֲמֽוֹר
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter VIII. The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers
And when, again, it is said in the ode, “For He hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath He cast into the sea;” the many-limbed and brutal affection, lust, with the rider mounted, who gives the reins to pleasures, “He has cast into the sea,” throwing them away into the disorders of the world. Thus also Plato, in his book On the Soul , says that the charioteer and the horse that ran off, the irrational part, which is divided in two, into anger and concupiscence, fall down; and so the myth intimates that it was through the licentiousness of the steeds that Phaëthon was thrown out. …
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, That deep things ought not to be preached at all to weak souls
But the preacher should know how to avoid drawing the mind of his hearer beyond its strength, lest, so to speak, the string of the soul, when stretched more than it can bear, should be broken. For all deep things should be covered up before a multitude of hearers, and scarcely opened to a few. For hence the Truth in person says, Who, thinkest thou, is the faithful and wise steward, whom his Lord has appointed over his household, to give them their measure of wheat in due season? ( Luke xii. 42 ). Now by a measure of wheat is expressed a portion of the Word, lest, when anything is given to a narrow heart beyond its capacity, it be spilt. Hence Paul says, I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As it were to babes in Christ, I have given you milk to drink, and not meat ( 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2 ). …