Proverbs 1:11 (WEB)
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Fathers and councils · 4
Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §13On Proverbs
“These things he understands of the people of the Jews, and their guilt in the blood of Christ; for they thought that He had His conversation (citizenship) on earth only.” — editor's note: Ch. i. 11.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“If you are invited to a revel, be not swift to go; if to apostasy, leap away; if a company of evildoers say to you, “Come with us, share our bloodguiltiness, let us hide in the earth a righteous man unjustly,” do not lend them even your ears.” — editor's note: Prov. i. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…the earth the righteous man; yea, let us swallow him up alive as hell, and let us take away his memory from the earth: let us seize his precious possession,” is not so obscure that it may not be understood, without laborious exposition, of Christ and His possession the Church.” — editor's note: Prov. i. 11–13.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…with us, share with us in innocent blood, and let us hide unjustly the righteous man in the earth; let us put him out of sight, all alive as he is into Hades.”” — editor's note: Prov. i. 10–12.
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