I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je vous ai bouleversés, Comme Sodome et Gomorrhe, que Dieu détruisit; Et vous avez été comme un tison arraché de l'incendie. Malgré cela, vous n'êtes pas revenus à moi, dit l'Eternel...
KJV
I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Eusebius of Caesarea
Demonstratio Evangelica
μένου. καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπὶ Σοδόμων δὲ καταστροφῇ δύο κύριοι παρίστανται, 3 Os. 11, 9. 15 Mattli. 10, 5. 21 Amos. 4, 11. ὅτε ἔβρεξεν ὁ κύριος πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου ἐπὶ Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα. ὁποίαν τοιγαροῦν, φησὶ, διὰ τἀς εκτόπους δυσσεβείας ὑπέμεινε καταστροφὴν τὰ Σόδομα, τοιαῦτα καὶ ὑμεῖς, ὦ…
Eusebius of Caesarea
Generalis elementaria introductio (= Eclogae propheticae)
Γόμορρα, καὶ ἐγένεσθε ὡς δαλὸς ἐξεσπασμένος ἐκ πυρὸς, καὶ οὐδ’ ὣς ἐπεστρέψατε πρὸς μὲ, λέγει Κύριος.Am. 4, 11. Καὶ ἐνθάδε αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος φησὶν ὡς περὶ ἑτέρου τὸ, καθὼς κατέστρεψεν ὁ Θεὸς Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα·Gen. 19, 24. καὶ ἐν τῇ Γενέσει δὲ τετήρηκεν ἡ θεία γραφὴ τὰ δύο πρόσωπα φή…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 87 (Migne)
conveniret: Facti estis quasi torris de incendio raptus, et nec sic redistis ad me, dicit Dominus (Amos IV, 11) . Quod quidem in eis quos in terra sua residere fecit, completum cognovimus, ut peccata peccatis addentes et se mutua caede vastantes, ultima necessitate, ut sibi vide…
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