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Louis Segond 1910
Ma parole n'est-elle pas comme un feu, dit l'Eternel, Et comme un marteau qui brise le roc?
KJV
[Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
[Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock in pieces?
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Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
is meant, as the Prophet Jeremiah also compares the Word of the Lord to an axe cleaving the rock. [ Jer 23:29 ] Greg., Hom. in Ev., 20. 9: Or, the axe signifies the Redeemer, who as an axe of halt and blade, so consisting of the Divine and human nature, is held by His human, but…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)
m igne charitatis inflammant. Unde Jeremias: «Nunquid non verba mea sunt quasi ignis, ait Dominus?» (Jerem. XXIII, 29.) Et Moyses: «In dextera ejus lignea lex (Deut. XXXIII, 2) .» Et Psalmista: «Ignitum eloquium tuum vehementer (Psal. CXVIII, 140) .» Sequitur: «Sex alae uni, e…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
tis, ut essent haec verba ejus, sicut malleus conterens petram, et sicut ignis, testimonio Jeremiae (Jerem. XXIII, 29) . Verba ejus sicut ignis et malleus, ut de igne ascendat virgula fumi ex aromatibus et pulvere pigmentarii, et conterat malleus. Libet paululum ad suavitatem his…
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