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Ezekiel 16:8Ezek.16.8

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Je passai près de toi, je te regardai, et voici, ton temps était là, le temps des amours. J'étendis sur toi le pan de ma robe, je couvris ta nudité, je te jurai fidélité, je fis alliance avec toi, dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel, et tu fus à moi.

KJV

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    to the unity of the Church in which we serve God. Moreover this is expressly contrary to Jer. 3:14, Ezech. 16:8, Osee 2:16, where the espousals of the synagogue are mentioned explicitly: so that she was not as a concubine but as a wife. Again, according to this, fornication would…

  • Tonneau

    CSCO 153 (Syr 72) — CSCO 153 (Syr 72) - Tonneau 1955 - Ephraem Syri in Genesim et in Exodum - V (versio)

    xv, 12210)... ............. 194 Sectio XVI(Ez.xv,22-xvi35). . . . . . . . . . . 3125 Sectio XVII (Ez. xvi, 1-14). . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Sectio XVIII (Ez. xvu, 5-27) . . . . . . . . 197 Sectio XIX (Ez. xi 1s) |... . . . .. . . . . . 198 Sectio XX (Ez. xx, 6-24) . . . SA…

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