Exodus 6:11
Go in, and speak to Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ingredere, et loquere ad Pharaonem regem Ægypti, ut dimittat filios Israël de terra sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἴσελθε λάλησον Φαραὼ βασιλεῖ Αἰγύπτου ἵνα ἐξαποστείλῃ τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בֹּ֣א דַבֵּ֔ר אֶל פַּרְעֹ֖ה מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרָ֑יִם וִֽישַׁלַּ֥ח אֶת בְּנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאַרְצֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Treatise XI, Chapter X
John, in his epistle, proves this, saying: “Greater is He who is in you than he that is in the world.” Also in the cxviith Psalm: “I will not fear what man can do unto me; the Lord is my helper.” And again: “These in chariots, and those in horses; but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. They themselves are bound, and they have fallen; but we have risen up, and stand upright.” And even more strongly the Holy Spirit, teaching and showing that the army of the devil is not to be feared, and that, if the foe should declare war against us, our hope consists rather in that war itself; and that by that conflict the righteous attain to the reward of the divine abode and eternal salvation, lays down in the twenty-sixth Psalm, and says: “Though an host should be arrayed against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise up against me, in that will I put my hope. …