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Ezekiel 8:3Ezek.8.3

And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il étendit une forme de main, et me saisit par les cheveux de la tête. L'esprit m'enleva entre la terre et le ciel, et me transporta, dans des visions divines, à Jérusalem, à l'entrée de la porte intérieure, du côté du septentrion, où était l'idole de la jalousie, qui excite la jalousie de l'Eternel.

KJV

And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    is uplifted by the spirit of God to things supernatural, and withdrawn from his senses, according to Ezech. 8:3, "The spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem." It must be observed, however, that sometimes a person i…

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    oul, or, on the other hand, his soul alone, were rapt to the third heaven. Thus Ezechiel is stated ( Ezech. 8:3 ) to have been "brought in the vision of God into Jerusalem." This was the explanation of a certain Jew according to Jerome (Prolog. super Daniel.), where he says that…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    nae virtutis, ut in Ezechiele: [Col. 0994B] «Similitudo manus apprehendit me [Note: [Col. 0993] 26 Ezech. VIII, 3.] ,» id est, vis supernae virtutis arripuit me. Manus, actio Christi, ut in Ezechiele: «Manus hominis sub pennis eorum [Note: [Col. 0993] 27 Ezech. I, 8.] ,» id…

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