Isaias 30:9
For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Populus enim ad iracundiam provocans est : et filii mendaces, filii nolentes audire legem Dei ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι λαὸς ἀπειθής ἐστιν, υἱοὶ ψευδεῖς οἳ οὐκ ἠβούλοντο ἀκούειν τὸν νόμον τοῦ θεοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֣י עַ֤ם מְרִי֙ ה֔וּא בָּנִ֖ים כֶּחָשִׁ֑ים בָּנִ֕ים לֹֽא אָב֥וּ שְׁמ֖וֹעַ תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chapter IX. That It is the Prerogative of the Same Power to Be Beneficent and to Punish Justly. Also the Manner of the Instruction of the Logos
Bringing one to his senses ( φρένωσις ) is censure, which makes a man think. Neither from this form of instruction does he abstain, but says by Jeremiah, “How long shall I cry, and you not hear? So your ears are uncircumcised.” O blessed forbearance! And again, by the same: “All the heathen are uncircumcised, but this people is uncircumcised in heart:” “for the people are disobedient; children,” says He, “in whom is not faith.”