Ezechiel 20:49
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixi : A, a, a, Domine Deus : ipsi dicunt de me : Numquid non per parabolas loquitur iste ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπα Μηδαμῶς, κύριε Κύριε· αὐτοὶ λέγουσιν πρὸς μέ Οὐχὶ παραβολή ἐστιν λεγομένη αὕτη;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Ezechiel 21:5
- וָאֹמַ֕ר אֲהָ֖הּ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הֵ֚מָּה אֹמְרִ֣ים לִ֔י הֲלֹ֛א מְמַשֵּׁ֥ל מְשָׁלִ֖ים הֽוּא
Haydock's commentary
Parables. They were easy enough to understand, but the Jews would not comprehend them no more than our Saviour's words, John x. 24. (Calmet)
Much of this prophecy was so hard, that all seemed to be parables. (Worthington)
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.