Ezechiel 25:8
Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Pro eo quod dixerunt Moab et Seir : Ecce sicut omnes gentes, domus Juda :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Ἀνθ᾽ ὧν εἶπεν Μωάβ Ἰδοὺ ⸆ οὐχ ὃν τρόπον πάντα τὰ ἔθνη οἶκος Ἰσραὴλ καὶ Ἰούδα;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה יַ֗עַן אֲמֹ֤ר מוֹאָב֙ וְשֵׂעִ֔יר הִנֵּ֥ה כְּכָֽל הַגּוֹיִ֖ם בֵּ֥ית יְהוּדָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Seir; Idumea.
Nations, whose gods could not defend them. (Calmet)
Thus they blasphemed the Lord. (Theodoret)
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 John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John, John 8.48,49
[3.] Wherefore I beseech you, while we have hopes of salvation, while we can turn, to use every means to do so. For men who have become past feeling, are after that in the blind state of despairing pilots, who give up their vessel to the wind, and themselves contribute no assistance. Thus the envious man looks to one thing only, that is, to satisfy his lust, and though he be like to be punished or even slain, still he is possessed solely by that passion; and in like manner the intemperate and avaricious. But if the sovereignty of the passions be so great, much greater is that of virtue; if for them we despise death, much more for this; if they (sinners) regard not their own lives, much less ought we to do so in the cause of our salvation. …