Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Vous avez mangé la graisse, vous vous êtes vêtus avec la laine, vous avez tué ce qui était gras, vous n'avez point fait paître les brebis.
KJV
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
were forbidden to eat the fat, in order to withdraw them from lasciviousness; hence it is written ( Ezech. 34:3 ): "You have killed that which was fat." Thirdly, on account of the reverence due to God: because blood is most necessary for life, for which reason "life" is said to b…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)
autem meum [Col. 0197B] non pascebatis, et caetera quae de pastoribus propheticus sermo exsequitur (Ezech. XXXIV, 3) . Si languente capite, ut beatus ait Gregorius [Note: [Col. 0197D] Pastoralis curae part. II, cap. 7.] , membra incassum vigent, languentibus utique membris, capu…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
alia, ut in Ezechiele: «Lanis operiebamini, gregem autem meum non pascebatis [Note: [Col. 0979] 18 Ezech. XXXIV, 3.] ,» id est, sustentamenta temporalia a subditis accepistis, sed eorum salvationem non praevidistis. Lanceae sunt jacula tentationis, ut in Job: «Circumdedit…
For an immersive study of Ezekiel 34:3 — meditation, lectio divina, exegesis, theology — discover Open Study Bible.
Full study →