Proverbs 22:21 (WEB)
To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
Fathers and councils · 2
Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“…things to thyself in a threefold manner, in counsel and knowledge, and that thou mayest answer the words of truth to those who have proposed them to thee.”” — editor's note: Cf. Prov. xxii. 20, 21. The Masoretic text reads, ךךעֲירִוׁהלְ .תעַרָוָ תוֹצע“מֹבְּ (סישִׁלִשָׁ, keri) סוׁשׁלִשָׁ ךךלְ יתִּבְתַכָ אׁלהְ .ךךיחֶלְשֹׁלְ תמֶאֱ…
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Clement of Alexandria
““Write,” it is said, “the commandments doubly, in counsel and knowledge, that thou mayest answer the words of truth to them who send unto thee.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxii. 20, 21. The Septuagint and Hebrew both differ from the reading here.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.9.