Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Prends la ceinture que tu as achetée, et qui est sur tes reins; lève-toi, va vers l'Euphrate, et là, cache-la dans la fente d'un rocher.
KJV
Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
es the latter understands the meaning of it, like Jeremias who hid his loin-cloth in the Euphrates ( Jer. 13:1-11 ); while sometimes he does not understand it---thus the soldiers, who divided Christ's garments, understood not the meaning of what they did. Accordingly, when a man…
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