As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Qu'ils périssent en se fondant, comme un limaçon; Sans voir le soleil, comme l'avorton d'une femme!
KJV
As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
Eusebius of Caesarea
Historia Ecclesiastica
ίων πλάνῃ καἰ θεομισῶν πνευμάτων ἐνεργείαις πᾶν τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος κατορωρυγμένον <ὁρῶν> αὐτὸ Cf. Ps. 58, 8 (LXX) ἐπιφανείς, ὡς ἂν κηροῦ διατακέντος ταῖς αὐτοῦ βολαῖς τοῦ φωτός, τὰς πολυδέτους τῶν τῶν ἀσεβημάτων ἡμῶν σειρὰς διελύσατο. “Νῦν δ’ ἐπὶ τῇ τοσαύτη χάριτι καὶ εὐεργεσί…
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