Holy Scripture

Nahum 2:6

A church father on this verse
“But is this the only place we read of "substance"? Has it not also been said in another passage: "The gates of the cities are broken down, the mountains are fallen, and his substance is revealed"? What, does the word mean something created here also? Some, I know, are accustomed to say that the substance is substance…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Exposition of the Christian Faith 3.14.115-16

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defenses.

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4They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion

5in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.

— Nahum 2:6 —

7The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,

8and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maidservants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts.

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