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How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Comment pouvez-vous dire: Nous sommes sages, La loi de l'Eternel est avec nous? C'est bien en vain que s'est mise à l'oeuvre La plume mensongère des scribes.

KJV

How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

Patristic reading

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  • Methodius

    De Resurrectione

    θεραπεύουσιν, ἀλλὰ τὸν πάσχοντα. 1 Dan. 12, 2. Symp. 9, 2 S. 116, 11 f. De res. II, 18, 3. 21, 2 – 6 Jerem. 8, 4 – 10 Luk. 16, 19 ff – 13 Weish. Sal. 3, 1–4 – 17 De res. I, 51, 5 – 9 vgl. Mt. 9, 12 (Mk. 2, 17. Luk. 5, 31) 1 ὀκλάσασα] ἁμαρτήσασα las schwerl. S (sŭgrěŠjŠisja vielm…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)

    sicut Jeremias declarat, dicens de quibusdam: «Vere mendacium operatus est stylus mendax scribarum (Jer. VIII, 8) . Et quid per hunc scribam nisi patres designantur, qui canonicas Scripturas composuerunt; unde et Sobna, id est sedens appellatur, quia in sessione designatur auctor…

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