Isaiah 29:21 (WEB)
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Fathers and councils · 2
Tertullian
“For when has the Jew not been a transgressor of the law; hearing with the ear, and not hearing; holding in hatred him who reproveth in the gates, and in scorn holy speech?” — editor's note: Comp. Isa. xxix. 21.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Another has turned aside the way of the meek, and turned aside the just among the unjust; another has hated him that reproveth in the gates, and abhorred him that speaketh uprightly; another has sacrificed to his net which catches much, and keeping the spoil of the poor in his house, has either…” — editor's note: Isai. xxix. 21.
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