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Louis Segond 1910
L'Egypte est une très belle génisse... Le destructeur vient du septentrion, il arrive...
KJV
Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
a legitur in libro Jeremiae: Vitula elegans et formosa Aegyptus: stimulator veniet ei ab aquilone (Jer. XLVI, 20) . Caro enim petulans intrinsecus, voluptati exterius et nitori serviens, dum, contempto rationis judicio, officinam odit lenocinii; incentiva libidinis se ingerunt…
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