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Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Et il me dit: C'est la malédiction qui se répand sur tout le pays; car selon elle tout voleur sera chassé d'ici, et selon elle tout parjure sera chassé d'ici.

KJV

Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ndemned by the Divine judgment save for a mortal sin. Yet a man is condemned for theft, according to Zech. 5:3, "This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth; for every thief shall be judged as is there written." Therefore theft is a mortal sin. I answer that, As…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 125 (Migne)

    mine meo mendaciter, et commorabitur in medio ejus, et consumet eum, et ligna ejus, et lapides ejus (Zach. V, 3) . Et in Ezechiele propheta: Vivo ego, dicit Dominus, quoniam in loco regis, qui constituit eum regem, cujus fecit irritum juramentum, et solvit pactum quod habebat cum…

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