Library Theodoret Questions on Exodus
Questions on Exodus 52: Flesh torn by wild beasts
For what reason does he forbid eating flesh torn by wild beasts?
He teaches them a more rational way of life and urges them to have nothing beastlike. For beasts do not first sacrifice and then eat in that way. For this reason a little later he also commands them to care for their enemies, and not to overlook the ox of one who is hostile when it wanders, but to turn it back to the hostile man’s house, and to raise up the beast of burden that has fallen, and by such good deeds to contrive reconciliations. Through these things he teaches that there is one lawgiver of the old and the new covenant, and that the one who gave this law also bestowed the evangelical law.
Greek: Theodoret of Cyrus, Quaestiones in Octateuchum / Questions on Exodus (CPG 6200.02; cf. Fernández Marcos and Sáenz-Badillos; also PG 80, cols. 225–298). English: study translation for BWAB Library—not the copyrighted Robert C. Hill (CUA Press) translation. The full Questions on Exodus (72 questions) is hosted here.