Leviticus 14:5
And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters:
In the palace
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et unum ex passeribus immolari jubebit in vase fictili super aquas viventes :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ προστάξει ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ σφάξουσιν τὸ ὀρνίθιον τὸ ἓν εἰς ἄγγιον ὀστράκινον ἐφ᾽ ὕδατι ζῶντι·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְצִוָּה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְשָׁחַ֖ט אֶת הַצִּפּ֣וֹר הָאֶחָ֑ת אֶל כְּלִי חֶ֖רֶשׂ עַל מַ֥יִם חַיִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Living waters. That is, waters taken from a spring, brook, or river: (Challoner) not stagnant or rain water.
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 John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Matthew VII. 28
But wherefore did He command him also to show himself to the priest, and to offer a gift? To fulfill the law here again. For neither did He in every instance set it aside, nor in every instance keep it, but sometimes He did the one, sometimes the other; by the one making way for the high ruleof life that was to come, by the other checking for a while the insolent speech of the Jews, and condescending to their infirmity. And why marvel, if just at the beginning He Himself did this, when even the very apostles, after they were commanded to depart unto the Gentiles, after the doors were opened for their teaching throughout the world, and the law shut up, and the commandments made new, and all the ancient things had ceased, are found sometimes observing the law, sometimes neglecting it?
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).