Leviticus 23:25
You shall do no servile work therein, and you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- omne opus servile non facietis in eo, et offeretis holocaustum Domino.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πᾶν ἔργον λατρευτὸν οὐ ποιήσετε, καὶ προσάξετε ὁλοκαύτωμα Κυρίῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּל מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֑וּ וְהִקְרַבְתֶּ֥ם אִשֶּׁ֖ה לַיהוָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus, Book II. On the Belief in the Resurrection
107. Let us, then, investigate what we read in the Old Testament concerning the kinds of trumpets, considering that those festivals which were enjoined on the Jews by the Law are the shadow of joys above and of heavenly festivals. For here is the shadow, there the truth. Let us endeavour to attain to the truth by means of the shadow. Of which truth the figure is expressed in this manner, where we read that the Lord said to Moses: “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a rest unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, it shall be called holy unto you. …
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).