If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes?
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Si des voleurs, des pillards, viennent de nuit chez toi, Comme te voilà dévasté! Mais enlèvent-ils plus qu'ils ne peuvent? Si des vendangeurs viennent chez toi, Ne laissent-ils rien à grappiller?...
KJV
If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes?
Eusebius of Caesarea
Onomasticon
ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΤΟΠΙΚΩΝ ΟΝΟΜΑΤΩΝ. AC Eusebius, qui a beato Pamfilo martyre eognomentum sortitus est, post decem ecclesiasticae historiae libros, post temporum canones, quos nos Latina lingua edidimus, post diuersarum uocabula nationum, quae quo modo olim apud Hebraeos dicta sin…
Jerome
NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome
A SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SECOND SERIES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH PROLEGOMENA AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. VOLUMES I–VII. UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THE…
Cyril of Jerusalem + Gregory of Nazianzus
NPNF2-07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen
A SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SECOND SERIES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH PROLEGOMENA AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. VOLUMES I–VII. UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN THE UNION THE…
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