Holy Scripture

Zechariah 13:3

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 3) And it will be, when someone prophesies further, his father and mother, who bore him, will say to him: You shall not live, because you have spoken falsehood in the name of the Lord. And his father and mother, who bore him, will pierce him when he prophesies. (Septuagint: If a man prophesies further, his fath…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Zechariah

Source: Septuagint

Original

3And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou hast spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.

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In context

1In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for separation.

2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.

— Zechariah 13:3 —

4And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he prophesies; and they shall clothe themselves with a garment of hair, because they have lied.

5And one shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up thus from my youth.

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