Exodus 21:34
The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- reddet dominus cisternæ pretium jumentorum : quod autem mortuum est, ipsius erit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ κύριος τοῦ λάκκου ἀποτίσει· ἀργύριον δώσει τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτῶν· τὸ δὲ τετελευτηκὸς αὐτῷ ἔσται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בַּ֤עַל הַבּוֹר֙ יְשַׁלֵּ֔ם כֶּ֖סֶף יָשִׁ֣יב לִבְעָלָ֑יו וְהַמֵּ֖ת יִֽהְיֶה לּֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
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 ). …