But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
KJV
Hebrew original
וְ/אֵין קוֹרֵ֣א בְ/שִׁמְ/ךָ֔ מִתְעוֹרֵ֖ר לְ/הַחֲזִ֣יק בָּ֑/ךְ כִּֽי הִסְתַּ֤רְתָּ פָנֶ֨י/ךָ֙ מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ וַ/תְּמוּגֵ֖/נוּ בְּ/יַד עֲוֺנֵֽ/נוּ
Louis Segond 1910
Nous sommes tous comme des impurs, Et toute notre justice est comme un vêtement souillé; Nous sommes tous flétris comme une feuille, Et nos crimes nous emportent comme le vent.
KJV
But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
. 40:6, "All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field"; and farther on ( Is. 64:6 ), "all our justices" are become "like the rag of a menstruous woman." Reply to Objection 2: Opposition between a vice and a virtue is inferred from the object, which is…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ve spoken figuratively." Further, "All our justices" are become "as the rag of a menstruous woman" ( Is. 64:6 ) where Jerome observes: "Men ought then to keep away from their wives because thus is a deformed blind lame leprous offspring conceived: so that those parents who are no…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
m perficiunt, cum cithara Spiritus sancti dicunt: Quasi pannus menstruatae, omnes justitiae nostrae (Isai. LXIV, 6) . CAP. XVII.--- De eo quod monere melius est. Patricius dicit (Synod. Patricii, tom. I Concil. Angl., p. 52 ) : Satius est nobis negligentes praemonere ne deli…
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