Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 14:4

A church father on this verse
“And therefore, according to the Law, clean animals have horns: for the Law is spiritual. For those who are able to repel the allurements of this world with the word of God and the observance of virtue, they seem to be fortified with horns like the helmets of their own heads. And rightly, the power of an astonishing sp…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Blessings of the Patriarchs

Source: Septuagint

Original

4These are the beasts which ye shall eat; the calf of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;

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2For thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.

3Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

— Deuteronomy 14:4 —

5the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.

6Every beast that divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud among beasts, these ye shall eat.

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