Ezechiel 16:40
And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et adducent super te multitudinem, et lapidabunt te lapidibus, et trucidabunt te gladiis suis :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἄξουσιν ἐπὶ σὲ ὄχλους, καὶ λιθοβολήσουσίν σε ἐν λίθοις, καὶ κατασφάξουσίν σε ἐν τοῖς ξίφεσιν αὐτῶν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהֶעֱל֤וּ עָלַ֨יִךְ֙ קָהָ֔ל וְרָגְמ֥וּ אוֹתָ֖ךְ בָּאָ֑בֶן וּבִתְּק֖וּךְ בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily XXIII on Rom. xiii. 1
Observe how it has both virtues, abstinence from evils (for it “worketh no ill,” he says), and the working of good deeds. “For it is,” he says, “the fulfilling (or filling up) of the Law;” not bringing before us instruction only on moral duties in a concise form, but making the accomplishment of them easy also. For that we should become acquainted with things profitable to us was not all that he was careful for (which is the Law’s care), but also with a view to the doing of them it brought us great assistance; accomplishing not some part of the commandments, but the whole sum of virtue in us. Let us then love one another, since in this way we shall also love God, Who loveth us. For in the case of men, if you love a man’s beloved, he that loveth him is contentious at it. But here He deemeth thee worthy to share His love, and hateth thee when thou sharest not. …