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Proverbs 13:9

Proverbs 13:9 (WEB)

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

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Basil the Great

  • “…least of all he who looks for celestial light as one of the rewards promised to virtue, the light which, as Solomon says, is always a light to the righteous, the light which made the Apostle say “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiii. 9, lxx.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Clement of Alexandria

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