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2 Samuel 14:142Sam.14.14

For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il nous faut certainement mourir, et nous serons comme des eaux répandues à terre et qui ne se rassemblent plus; Dieu n'ôte pas la vie, mais il désire que le fugitif ne reste pas banni de sa présence.

KJV

For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 198 (Migne)

    um quartum. Nomen hujus gladii mors est, qua omnes sine ulla exceptione ferimur: omnes enim morimur (II Reg. XIV, 14) . Ipse est, de quo habemus in Genesi de patre nostro Abraham; quia ipse portavit in manibus ignem et gladium (Gen. XXII, 6) , quia ardor passionis Christi, et acu…

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