Proverbs 1:17 (WEB)
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
Fathers and councils · 2
“Ipsi enim, cure sint sanguinum participes, thesauros malorum sibi recondunt;” hoc est, sibi affectantes immunditiam, et proximos similia docentes, bellatores, percussores caudis suis, ait propheta, quas quidem Græci κέρκους appellant.” — editor's note: Prov. i. 15, 16, 17.
Read the whole comment““For not unjustly,” say the divine oracles, “are the nets spread for birds; for they who are accomplices in blood treasure up evils to themselves.”” — editor's note: Prov. i. 17, 18, “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird, and they lay wait for their own blood.”
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.7.