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Isaiah 60:16Isa.60.16

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

KJV

Hebrew original

וְ/יָנַקְתְּ֙ חֲלֵ֣ב גּוֹיִ֔ם וְ/שֹׁ֥ד מְלָכִ֖ים תִּינָ֑קִי וְ/יָדַ֗עַתְּ כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ מֽוֹשִׁיעֵ֔/ךְ וְ/גֹאֲלֵ֖/ךְ אֲבִ֥יר יַעֲקֹֽב

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Tu suceras le lait des nations, Tu suceras la mamelle des rois; Et tu sauras que je suis l'Eternel, ton sauveur, Ton rédempteur, le puissant de Jacob.

KJV

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Patristic reading

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  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)

    hic sinistram exhibet: et Ecclesiae promittitur in prophetia Isaiae, quod regum mamilla lactabitur (Isai. LX, 16) . Mamilla, inquit, et non Mamillis, eo quod regum est temporalibus praecipue [Col. 0162B] bonis Ecclesiam fovere: haec enim sinistra ejus est, in qua sunt divitiae…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 185 (Migne)

    na promittebat Ecclesiae: Reges nutritii tui erunt (Isai. XLIX, 23) , et mammilla regum lactaberis (Isa. LX, 16) . Nisi enim tam generoso lacte nutrita esset, nunquam ad hoc virtutis ac gloriae culmen excrevisset. Ad ubera parvulos Petrus invitabat, quibus dicebat: Sicut modo ge…

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