Ezechiel 10:17
When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Stantibus illis stabant, et cum elevatis elevabantur : spiritus enim vitæ erat in eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ⸂⸆⸃ ἐν τῷ ἑστάναι αὐτὰ ἱστήκεισαν, καὶ ἐν τῷ μετεωρίζεσθαι αὐτὰ ἐμετεωρίζοντο μετ᾽ αὐτῶν· διότι πνεῦμα ζωῆς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἦν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בְּעָמְדָ֣ם יַעֲמֹ֔דוּ וּבְרוֹמָ֖ם יֵר֣וֹמּוּ אוֹתָ֑ם כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ הַחַיָּ֖ה בָּהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Life. They were not mere machines; (Haydock) or they were pushed forward by an impetuous wind.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius
2. The good ground of which we read in the parable brought forth fruit, some an hundred-fold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold. In this threefold yield I recognize an emblem of the three different rewards of Christ which have fallen to three women closely united in blood and moral excellence. Eustochium culls the flowers of virginity. Paula sweeps the toilsome threshing floor of widowhood. Paulina keeps the bed undefiled of marriage. A mother with such daughters wins for herself on earth all that Christ has promised to give in heaven. Then to complete the team, if I may so call it, of four saints turned out by a single family, and to match the women’s virtues by those of a man, the three have a fit companion in Pammachius who is a cherub such as Ezekiel describes, brother-in-law to the first, son-in-law to the second, husband to the third. …