Ezechiel 8:10
And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, and of living creatures, the abomination, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ingressus vidi, et ecce omnis similitudo reptilium et animalium, abominatio, et universa idola domus Israël, depicta erant in pariete in circuitu per totum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσῆλθον καὶ ἴδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ μάταια βδελύγματα καὶ πάντα τὰ εἴδωλα οἴκου Ἰσραὴλ διαγεγραμμένα ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῦ κύκλῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וָאָבוֹא֮ וָֽאֶרְאֶה֒ וְהִנֵּ֨ה כָל תַּבְנִ֜ית רֶ֤מֶשׂ וּבְהֵמָה֙ שֶׁ֔קֶץ וְכָל גִּלּוּלֵ֖י בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מְחֻקֶּ֥ה עַל הַקִּ֖יר סָבִ֥יב סָבִֽיב
Haydock's commentary
About. This was the council chamber, Jeremias xxvi. 10. They durst not publicly adore the Egyptian, &c., idols. (Calmet)
They denied Providence, ver. 12. (Haydock)
The wicked do not regard it, and hence fall into idolatry. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, What the ruler's discrimination should be between correction and connivance, between fervour and gentleness
Some hidden things, however, ought to be closely investigated, that, by the breaking out of certain symptoms, the ruler may discover all that lies closely hidden in the minds of his subordinates, and, by reproof intervening at the nick of time, from very small things become aware of greater ones. Whence it is rightly said to Ezekiel, Son of man, dig in the wall ( Ezek. viii. 8 ); where the said prophet presently adds, And when I had digged in the wall, there appeared one door. And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every similitude of creeping things, and abomination of beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were pourtrayed upon the wall ( Ibid. 9, 10 ). Now by Ezekiel are personified men in authority; by the wall is signified the hardness of their subordinates. …