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1222 |
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Mysticorum expositiones sacramentorum seu Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum (624 - 636) Isidore of Seville |
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20. Quod autem Scriptura inducit parientem Thamar, et duos in utero geminos habentem, quorum
scilicet primus, qui dicitur Zara, misit manum suam, et obstetrix ligavit coccinum; et dehinc illo
manum intrinsecus retrahente, posterior, qui Phares vocatur, porrexit manum, et nascendo praecessit, figuraliter congruit, quod ostenderit Israel in legis opera manum suam, et eam prophetarum, et ipsius Salvatoris pollutam cruore contraxerit. Postea vero proruperit populus gentium, scilicet ut futuri essent novissimi qui erant primi, et primi futuri essent qui erant novissimi. |
| Translation |
20. Because however Scripture mentions Thamar giving birth, and having two twins in her womb, of whom indeed the first, who is called Zara, put his hand out, and the midwife tied a scarlet cloth to it; and then withdrawing his hand back within, the second, who is called Phares, stretched out his hand, and came first in being born, it fits figuratively that Israel first showed its hand in the work of the law, and withdrew it through the defilement of violence against its prophets and against the Saviour himself. But afterwards the people of the nations broke through, just as those who had been the first should now be the last, and those who were the last should now be the first. |
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Cap. 29, Par. 20, Col. 271 (lin. 12) |
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