Proverbs 14:30 (WEB)
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
““And it came into his bowels like water.”” — editor's note: [It seems to me there is here a reference to the water of jealousy, Numb. v. 22, 23. Compare Acts i. 18. As to oil, generally a blessing, compare Ps. lv. 21;…
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Ambrose of Milan
“For “the meek man is the physician of the heart.”” — editor's note: Prov. xiv. 30 [LXX.].
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Is the undertaking then so serious and laborious to a sensitive and sad heart—a very rottenness to the bones of a sensible man: while the danger is slight, and a fall not worth consideration?” — editor's note: Prov. xiv. 30.
Read the whole comment“With this idea and purpose, he who was the guardian and patron of the community (and, as Solomon says with truth, a perceptive heart is a moth to the bones, unsensitiveness is cheerily confident, while a sympathetic disposition is a source of pain, and constant consideration wastes away the heart), he, I say, was…” — editor's note: Prov. xiv. 30 (LXX.).
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Gregory the Great
“Whence it is written, Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones (Prov. xiv. 30).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.11.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.11.