Exodus 21:33 (WEB)
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory the Great
“…is enjoined on him by the Divine voice that if any one should dig a cistern, and not cover it, and an ox or ass should fall into it, he should pay the price (Exod. xxi. 33, 34), because when one who has arrived at the deep streams of knowledge covers them not up before the brutish hearts of his hearers, he is…” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““And if one open up or hew out a pit,” it is said, “and do not cover it, and there fall in there a calf or ass, the owner of the pit shall pay the price in money, and give it to his neighbour; and the dead body shall be his.” — editor's note: Ex. xxi. 33, 36.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.40.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.8.
