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And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance through all the earth.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Je répondis: Qu'est-ce? Et il dit: C'est l'épha qui sort. Il ajouta: C'est leur iniquité dans tout le pays.

KJV

And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance through all the earth.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    Col. 0858B] Amphora est avaritia, ut in Zacharia: «Haec est amphora egrediens [Note: [Col. 0857] 23 Zach. V, 6.] ,» quod nullus est, qui ab avaritia immunis sit. Amphora, modus in contemplatione, ut in libris Regum: «Et adduxit eum secum in vitulis tribus, et modio farinae, e…
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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 153 (Migne)

    amphora, in qua impietas clausa erat, de qua ne egredi posset, massa plumbea os amphorae claudebat (Zach. V, 6, 7) . Qua in re datur intelligi quam difficile sit de ventre avaritiae hominem avarum vel extrahi vel separari posse. Narrat enim Zacharias propheta se vidisse amphoram…
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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)

    , et dixit: Haec est impietas. Et projecit eam in medio amphorae, et misit massam plumbi in os ejus (Zach. V, 5-8) . Volens Deus ostendere prophetae humanum genus, ex qua ab eo maxime culpa delebatur per imaginem amphorae quasi patens os avaritiae designavit. Avaritia quippe velu…

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