Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Elle est un arbre de vie pour ceux qui la saisissent, Et ceux qui la possèdent sont heureux.
KJV
She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Elle est un arbre de vie pour ceux qui la saisissent, Et ceux qui la possèdent sont heureux.
KJV
She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
Origen
Commentarii In Evangelium Joannis
γραφὰς τοὺς ἀμαρτάνον- 4 Ps. 120, 4 (ART). — 5 Ps. 114, — 8 Vgl. II ön. 17. — 14 Vgl. Ps. 1, 3. — 19 Prov. 3, 18. — 25 Vgl. Matth. 7, 7. — 29 Job. 8, 49. 3 αἰτῶ, corr. V | 4 καὶ Ζ. str.? We | τὸ + Pr | 5 ἰσδραὴλ | 6 σωμήρ = die Übersetzung stammt nicht aus dem Onomasticum, sonder…
Methodius
Symposium Sive Convivium Decem Virginum
17, 12. Ad Diogn. 12 — 17 II Kor. 5, 10 — 19 Apok. Job. 20, 5. 6 — 20 vgl. Prov. S, 22. Sir. 1, 4 — Prov. 3, 18 — 22 Psal. 1, 3 1 ἐκεῖ Ρ 217ν 3 καὶ ἰτέας < P 10 ῥόα wie S. 84, 8: ῥοιά Ρ 17 ἡμέρα P 218 18 καὶ ἡμεῖς σχῶμεν B 20 ξύλον] ζωῆς + Jh, aber hier eine Ausdeutung von Lev. 2…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
itual thing, for it is written of Wisdom that "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her" ( Prov. 3:18 ). Therefore paradise also is not a corporeal, but a spiritual place. Objection 5: Further, if paradise be a corporeal place, the trees also of paradise must be corpore…
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