Ezechiel 36:18
And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et effudi indignationem meam super eos pro sanguine quem fuderunt super terram, et in idolis suis polluerunt eam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξέχεα τὸν θυμόν μου ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וָאֶשְׁפֹּ֤ךְ חֲמָתִי֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם עַל הַדָּ֖ם אֲשֶׁר שָׁפְכ֣וּ עַל הָאָ֑רֶץ וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם טִמְּאֽוּהָ
Haydock's commentary
Blood of their own children, and of the innocent, chap. xvi. 36., and xxii. 2., and xxxiii. 25.
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 Augustine On Christian Doctrine, The Fourth Rule of Tichonius
48. Now the species is not always overstepped, for things are often said of such a kind as evidently apply to it also, or perhaps even to it exclusively. But when Scripture, having up to a certain point been speaking about the species, makes a transition at that point from the species to the genus, the reader must then be carefully on his guard against seeking in the species what he can find much better and more surely in the genus. Take, for example, what the prophet Ezekiel says: “When the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way, and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. …