Ecclesiastes 10:11 (WEB)
If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X II.11Conference II
““If” says he “a serpent bite without hissing there is no sufficiency for the charmer,” showing that the bite of a serpent in silence is dangerous, i.e., if a suggestion or thought springing from the devil is not by means of confession shown to…” — editor's note: Eccl. x. 11 (LXX.).
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Jerome
“The Preacher expresses this more clearly still when he says: “Surely the serpent will bite where there is no enchantment, and the slanderer is no better.”” — editor's note: Eccl. x. 11, R.V. marg.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Conferences I–X II.11.