Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Que ne m'a-t-on fait mourir dans le sein de ma mère! Que ne m'a-t-elle servi de tombeau! Que n'est-elle restée éternellement enceinte!
KJV
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].
Rufinus Aquileiensis
Provinciae Palestinae Liber De Fide [Incertus]
RUFINI PRESBYTERI PROVINCIAE PALESTINE a LIBER DE FIDE. 581 Haec nostra fides est, quam didicimus a Deo a Liber de fide) Adnotat P. Sirmondus, atque ait, et doctis viris, Moyse dico et exteris Prophetis, bis libri hujus testimonio usum esse Joanneui Dia conum in expositione Hepta…
Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)
Epistula I ad Corinthios
Ἡ ἐκκλησία τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ παροικοῦσα Ῥώμην τῆ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ παροικούσῃ Κόρινθον, κλητοῖς ἡγιασμένοις ἐν θελήματι θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ παντοκράτορος θεοῦ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πληθυνθείη. Διὰ τὰς αἰφνιδίους καὶ ἐπαλλήλους γενομένας ἡμῖν…
Hermas
The Shepherd of Hermas
Ὅρασις α Ὁ θρέψας με πέπρακέν με Ῥόδῃ τινὶ pro\s gunai=ka/ tina AL1, omitting the mention of her name εἰς Ῥώμην. μετὰ πολλὰ ἔτη ταύτην ἀνεγνωρισάμην καὶ ἠρξάμην αὐτὴν ἀγαπᾶν ὡς ἀδελφήν. μετὰ χρόνον τινὰ λουομένην εἰς τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν Τίβεριν εἶδον καὶ ἐπέδωκα αὐτῇ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ ἐξ…
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