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Isaiah 45:9Isa.45.9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Malheur à qui conteste avec son créateur! -Vase parmi des vases de terre! -L'argile dit-elle à celui qui la façonne: Que fais-tu? Et ton oeuvre: Il n'a point de mains?

KJV

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Patristic reading

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  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)

    Figulo quidem multoties in sacris libris assimilatur omnipotens Deus.» Id patet ex Jer. XVIII, 16; Isa. XLV, 9; Rom. IX, 20; Psal. CII, 13 et 14; Job. X, 8 et 9, et alibi saepe, quod quidem non allegorice dictum est, vel ad similitudinem, sed stricta significatione et proprie, q…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 153 (Migne)

    eas Deo? «Nunquid dicit figmentum ei qui se finxit: Quid me fecisti sic?» [Col. 0078C] (Sap. XV, 7; Isa. XLV, 9; Jer. XVIII, 6.) An non habet potestatem figulus luti, ex eadem massa facere aliud quidem vas in honorem, aliud vero in contumeliam? Quia [quid] si Deus volens ostende…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)

    enim quisque peccator est, cui dicitur: «Vae, qui contradicit fictori suo, testa de samiis terrae!» (Isa. XLV, 9.) Sed haec testa post contritionem nequit portare igniculum de incendio, quia per diem Sabbati. sicut lex dicit: «Non succendetis ignem in omnibus habitaculis vestris…

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