Isaias 37:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid eruerunt eos dii gentium quos subverterunt patres mei, Gozam, et Haram, et Reseph, et filios Eden qui erant in Thalassar ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἐρρύσαντο αὐτοὺς οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν οὓς ἀπώλεσαν οἱ πατέρες μου, τήν τε Γωζὰν καὶ Χαρρὰν καὶ Ῥάφεθ, αἵ εἰσιν ἐν χώρᾳ Θεεμάθ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַהִצִּ֨ילוּ אוֹתָ֜ם אֱלֹהֵ֤י הַגּוֹיִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִשְׁחִ֣יתוּ אֲבוֹתַ֔י אֶת גּוֹזָ֖ן וְאֶת חָרָ֑ן וְרֶ֥צֶף וּבְנֵי עֶ֖דֶן אֲשֶׁ֥ר בִּתְלַשָּֽׂר
The Fathers on this verse
St John Damascene An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Concerning Paradise
Now when God was about to fashion man out of the visible and invisible creation in His own image and likeness to reign as king and ruler over all the earth and all that it contains, He first made for him, so to speak, a kingdom in which he should live a life of happiness and prosperity. And this is the divine paradise, planted in Eden by the hands of God, a very storehouse of joy and gladness of heart (for “Eden” means luxuriousness). Its site is higher in the East than all the earth: it is temperate and the air that surrounds it is the rarest and purest: evergreen plants are its pride, sweet fragrances abound, it is flooded with light, and in sensuous freshness and beauty it transcends imagination: in truth the place is divine, a meet home for him who was created in God’s image: no creature lacking reason made its dwelling there but man alone, the work of God’s own hands.