[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ceux qui étaient rassasiés se louent pour du pain, Et ceux qui étaient affamés se reposent; Même la stérile enfante sept fois, Et celle qui avait beaucoup d'enfants est flétrie.
KJV
[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Philo Judaeus
Quod Deus Sit Immutabilis
ργέστατόν ἐστι καὶ τὸ ᾆσμα, ἐν ᾧ περιέχεται τὸ „στεῖρα ἔτεκεν ἑπτά, ἡ δὲ πολλὴ ἐν τέκνοις ἠσθένησε“ (I Reg. 2, 5)· καίτοι γε ἑνός ἐστι μήτηρ τοῦ Σαμουὴλ ἡ λέγουσα. πῶς οὖν ἑπτὰ τετοκέναι φησίν, εἰ μή τι μονάδα ἑβδομάδι τὴν αὐτὴν φυσικώτατα νομίζει, οὐ μόνον ἐν ἀριθμοῖς, ἀλλὰ καὶ…
Philo Judaeus
De Mutatione Nominum
ᾀδόμενον ᾆσμα ὑπὸ τῆς χάριτος, Ἄννης, ἥ φησιν· „στεῖρα ἔτεκεν ἑπτά, ἡ δὲ πολλὴ ἐν τέκνοις ἠσθένησε“ (I Reg. 2, 5). καλεῖ δὲ πολλὴν μὲν τὴν ἐκ μιγάδων καὶ συγκλύδων λογισμῶν συμπεφορημένην διάνοιαν, ἣ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν ὄχλων καὶ θορύβων ἀνήκεστα κακὰ τίκτει, στεῖραν δὲ…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
cantico suo: Donec sterilis (inquit) peperit plurimos, et quae multos habebat filios infirmata est (I Reg. II, 5) . Iste est ergo solus essentialiter sanctus, non per quem mater corrumpatur, sed per quem vulva reseretur [Col. 0217D] Ecclesiae, primogenitus ex multis fratribus. Q…
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