386Ambrosius Mediolanensis

 

A fragment of the second book of Ambrose of Milan, On Iacob and the Happy Life (De Iacob et vita beata). The treatise was most likely written in 386 in Milan (1933PalanqueJR). The author mentions the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) of the animal. To denote the LCF, Ambrose of Milan used the Latin term «neruum». The text is prepared for machine translation using a service built into the blog from Google or your web browser. See our commentary at the link: 386Ambrosius Mediolanensis [Rus].

Quote

[Lat]

De Iacob et vita beata. Liber secundus, 7.31

Claiudicauit autem Iacob a femore suo. Propter hoc non manducant hodieque filii Israel neruum. Vtinam manducassent et credidissent! Sed quia non erant facturi uoluntatem dei, ideo non manducauerunt. Sunt et qui ita accipiant, eo quod ideo claudicauerit ab uno femore Iacob, quia duobus populis ex eius generatione manantibus unius stupor iam tunc circa fidei gratiam declarabatur futurus. Ipse est ergo populus, qui stupore perfidiae claudicauit. (original source: 1897SchenklC, p. 50)

Translation

[Eng]

On Iacob and the Happy Life. Book Two, 7.31

But Jacob limped because of his thigh. «On account of this the children of Israel do not eat the sinew to the present day.» Would that they head eaten it and had believed! But because they were not about to do the will of God, therefore they did not eat. There are those, too, who take the passage in the following sense, that Jacob limped from one thigh. Two peoples flowed from his lineage, and there was then being revealed the numbness which one of them would presently exhibit towards the grace of faith. And so it is the people itself that limped by reason of the numbness of its unbelief. (original source: 2010PeeblesBM, p. 164.)

External links

Schenkl C. Sancti Ambrosii Opera pars altera, qua continentur libri De Iacob … Pragae: F. Tempsky; Vindobonae: F. Tempsky; Lipsiae: G. Freytag, 1897. [archive.org]

Peebles BM. The Fathers of the Church, a new translation. Vol. 65. Ambrosius S. Seven Exegetical Works. Transtated by M.P. McHugh. CUA Press, 2010. [books.google]

Authors & Affiliations

Ambrosius Mediolanensis (Ambrose of Milan, 339-397) was a Bishop of Milan, theologian, statesman. [wikipedia.org]

Ambrosius Mediolanensis (ca. 380-500)
Unknown author, mosaic in St.Ambrogio church in Milan;
original in the wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – Public Domain, fragment)

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, Bible, animals, synonym

                                                                     

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