Ezechiel 36:29
And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et salvabo vos ex universis inquinamentis vestris : et vocabo frumentum et multiplicabo illud, et non imponam vobis famem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ σώσω ὑμᾶς ἐκ πασῶν τῶν ἀκαθαρσιῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ καλέσω τὸν σῖτον
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהוֹשַׁעְתִּ֣י אֶתְכֶ֔ם מִכֹּ֖ל טֻמְאֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וְקָרָ֤אתִי אֶל הַדָּגָן֙ וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י אֹת֔וֹ וְלֹא אֶתֵּ֥ן עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם רָעָֽב
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. …