Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
J'allai vers l'Euphrate, je fouillai, et je pris la ceinture dans le lieu où je l'avais cachée; mais voici, la ceinture était gâtée, elle n'était plus bonne à rien.
KJV
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Origen
In Jeremiam (Homiliae 1-11)
t accepit cintorium de loco ubi infoderat illud, et ecce coinputruerat, quod mdli usui esset H (vgl. Jerem. 13,7) Ι καὶ] + ne quis juxta rohintatem animi sui de hoc loco sibi pracsumeret intellectum H. »καθαπερ κολλᾶται τὸ περίζωμα πρὸς τὴν ὀσφὺν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, οὕτως ἐκόλλησα πρὸς…
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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