Proverbs 13:8 (WEB)
The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
Fathers and councils · 8
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.21Book VII
“For, as Solomon says, “riches” are the true good, which “are the ransom of the life of a man;” but the poverty which is the opposite of these riches is destructive, for by it “the poor cannot bear rebuke.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8.
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Jerome
“For“the ransom of a man’s life is his riches.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment““That which is another man’s” is a quantity of gold or of silver, while “that which is our own” is the spiritual heritage of which it is elsewhere said: “The ransom of a man’s life is his riches.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8, R.V.
Read the whole comment“We read in the Proverbs: “the ransom of a man’s soul are his own riches.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8, LXX.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.9Conference III
“…shall be blessed: glory and riches are in his house, and his righteousness remaineth for ever:” and again “the ransom of a man’s life are his riches.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For “the ransom of a man’s life are his riches,” since he that gives to the poor redeems his soul.” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For the Scripture avouches, “that the true riches of the soul are a man’s ransom,” that is, if he is rich, he will be saved by distributing it.” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Et: “Pretium redemptionis anima, propriæ judicantur divitiæ.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 8.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.9.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.21.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.21.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.21 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.21 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.9.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in Against Celsus VII.21.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.9.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.9.
Cited together in Conferences I–X III.9.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.