Leviticus 2:5
If thy oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si oblatio tua fuerit de sartagine, similæ conspersæ oleo et absque fermento,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δὲ θυσία ἀπὸ τηγάνου τὸ δῶρόν σου, σεμίδαλις πεφυραμένη ἐν ἐλαίῳ, ἄζυμά ἐστιν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאִם מִנְחָ֥ה עַל הַֽמַּחֲבַ֖ת קָרְבָּנֶ֑ךָ סֹ֛לֶת בְּלוּלָ֥ה בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן מַצָּ֥ה תִהְיֶֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory of Nyssa Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
But if any one would give a more sensuous interpretation to the words “God said,” as proving that articulate speech was His creation, by a parity of reason he must understand by the words “God saw,” that He did so by faculties of perception like our own, through the organs of vision; and so again by the words “The Lord heard me and had mercy upon me,” and again, “He smelled a sweet savour,” and whatever other sensuous expressions are employed by Scripture in reference to head, or foot, or hand, or eyes, or fingers, or sandals, as appertaining to God, taking them, I say, in their plain literal acceptation, he will present to us an anthropomorphous deity, after the similitude of what is seen among ourselves. …