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For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car la mort est montée par nos fenêtres, Elle a pénétré dans nos palais; Elle extermine les enfants dans la rue, Les jeunes gens sur les places.

KJV

For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

Patristic reading

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  • Epiphanius

    Panarion (Adversus Haereses)

    enkt wohl an die Bestimmungen des Mischnatraktats Ohaloth (Strack, Einl. in d. Talmud 4 S. 58f) — 13 Jerem. 9, 21 — 18 vgl. Gen. 50, 7 — 19 Gen. 50, 1 — 20 f gemeint ist wohi die assumptio Mosis, vgl. Evodii ep. ad Augustinum c. 6 = August, ep. 158; CSEL 44 S. 492, 21ff Goldbache…
  • Methodius

    In Genesim (In Catenis)

    m. 19, 14 — 10 vgl. zu S. 446, 29 — 13 Num. 19, 15 — 14 vgl. Kol. 3, 14 — 16 vgl. II Tim. 2, 19 — 18 Jerem. 9, 21 — 19 vgl. Orig. zu Klagel. Jerem. 2, 9 S. 257, 26 Kl — 31 Röm. 6, 7 13 »durch ein Band« + Num. 19, 15 15 »umwund.« 186v 19 πύλαι δὲ ψυχῆς αἱ αἰσθήσεις 21 »schon« uze:…
  • Ambrose of Milan

    One Book on the Flight from the World

    tastes and sin is reported; touch ignites desire. Death enters through the window, says the Prophet Jeremiah 9:21. Your window is your eye. If you see someone and feel lust, death has entered. If you hear seductive words, death has entered. If luxury captivates your senses, death…

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