Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Séphora prit une pierre aiguë, coupa le prépuce de son fils, et le jeta aux pieds de Moïse, en disant: Tu es pour moi un époux de sang!
KJV
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ss, certain well-known circumcisions are related as having been performed with a stone knife, thus ( Ex. 4:25 ) we read that "Sephora took a very sharp stone and circumcised the foreskin of her son," and ( Joshua 5:2 ): "Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time t…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
st espoused the Church by His Incarnation and Passion: wherefore this is foreshadowed in the words ( Ex. 4:25 ), "A bloody spouse thou art to me." Now by His Incarnation and Passion Christ was not otherwise united to the angels than before. Therefore the angels do not belong to t…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 178 (Migne)
o instrumento hanc fieri lex monstrat, cum et Sephora uxor Moysi sic filium circumcidisse scribatur (Exod. IV, 25) , et Josue cultris lapideis ex praecepto Domini populum circumciderit [Col. 0404C] (Josue, V, 2) : quanquam id modo pro difficultate rei nequaquam Judaei observent.…
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