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Proverbs 18:3 (WEB)
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.

Fathers and councils · 11

Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“…to transgress and revolt from the Truth, are strenuous in appropriating the words of Scripture, ‘When the impious cometh into a depth of evils, he despiseth;’ for refutation does not stop them, nor perplexity abash them; but, as having ‘a whore’s forehead,’ they ‘refuse to be ashamed’ before all men in their…” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 36
“Therefore in a certain place saith the Scripture (hear this abyss), “The sinner when he cometh unto the depth of sin despiseth.”” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 40
““The sinner when he comes into the depth of evil despiseth.”” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 68
“Whence there is this saying, “When a sinner shall have come into the depth of evil things, he despiseth.”” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 69
“But if there is done in him that which another passage of Scripture saith, “When a sinner shall have come into the depth of evil things, he will despise,” upon him the pit hath shut her mouth.” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 115
“For the Scripture in another passage proclaimeth, “The sinner, when he cometh into the abyss of wickednesses, scorneth.”” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 130
“Now consider, brethren, what sort of deep that is, where God is despised.” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews Homily 6
“For as unbelief brings forth an evil life, so also a soul, “when it is come into a depth of evils, becometh contemptuous” ( Prov. xviii. 3 ), and having become contemptuous it endures not even to believe, in order thereby to free itself from fear.” — the author cites it
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Jerome, Letters Letter 122
“For the same reason Ezekiel swallowed the book where were written within and without song, and lamentation and woe; the song in praise of the righteous, the lamentation over the penitent, and the woe for those of whom it is written, “When the wicked man falleth into the depths of evil, then is he filled with scorn.”” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 44
“Do not despise, like the wicked in the pit of evil.” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 20
“…to that which is more evil, fall altogether from good and from virtue, through despondency; and having fallen into a depth of evil (as it is said) despise Him; but that like those who in the course of a long journey make a brief rest from labour at an inn, we should be enabled to accomplish the rest of the road fresh…” — editor's note: Prov. xviii. 3 (LXX.).
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