Jeremias 13:26
Wherefore I have also bared thy thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Unde et ego nudavi femora tua contra faciem tuam, et apparuit ignominia tua :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κἀγὼ ἀποκαλύψω τὰ ὀπίσω σου ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ ὀφθήσεται ἡ ἀτιμία σου
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְגַם אֲנִ֛י חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ עַל פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְנִרְאָ֖ה קְלוֹנֵֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Appeared. Thou art treated as a wretched and vile captive. (Haydock)
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
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XXIII. The Same Subject Continued
Those, then, who run down created existence and vilify the body are wrong; not considering that the frame of man was formed erect for the contemplation of heaven, and that the organization of the senses tends to knowledge; and that the members and parts are arranged for good, not for pleasure. Whence this abode becomes receptive of the soul which is most precious to God; and is dignified with the Holy Spirit through the sanctification of soul and body, perfected with the perfection of the Saviour. And the succession of the three virtues is found in the Gnostic, who morally, physically, and logically occupies himself with God. For wisdom is the knowledge of things divine and human; and righteousness is the concord of the parts of the soul; and holiness is the service of God. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
6. But if even real virgins, when they have other failings, are not saved by their physical virginity, what shall become of those who have prostituted the members of Christ, and have changed the temple of the Holy Ghost into a brothel? Straightway shall they hear the words: “Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground; there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldæans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. …