Ezechiel 16:22
And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et post omnes abominationes tuas et fornicationes, non es recordata dierum adolescentiæ tuæ, quando eras nuda et confusione plena, conculcata in sanguine tuo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοῦτο παρὰ πᾶσαν τὴν πορνείαν σου, καὶ οὐκ ἐμνήσθης τῆς νηπιότητός σου, τῆς ἡμέρας ὅτε ἦσθα γυμνὴ καὶ ἀσχημονοῦσα· πεφυρμένη ἐν τῷ αἵματί σου ἔζησας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֵ֤ת כָּל תּוֹעֲבֹתַ֨יִךְ֙ וְתַזְנֻתַ֔יִךְ לֹ֥א זכרתי אֶת יְמֵ֣י נְעוּרָ֑יִךְ בִּֽהְיוֹתֵךְ֙ עֵרֹ֣ם וְעֶרְיָ֔ה מִתְבּוֹסֶ֥סֶת בְּדָמֵ֖ךְ הָיִֽית
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XXVI
“And if it be given her for a covering,” say you, “wherefore need she add another covering?” That not nature only, but also her own will may have part in her acknowledgment of subjection. For that thou oughtest to be covered nature herself by anticipation enacted a law. Add now, I pray, thine own part also, that thou mayest not seem to subvert the very laws of nature; a proof of most insolent rashness, to buffet not only with us, but with nature also. This is why God accusing the Jews said, ( Ezek. xvi. 21, 22 .) “Thou hast slain thy sons and thy daughters: this is beyond all thy abominations.”
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).