Proverbs 23:35 (WEB)
“They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don’t feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I will look for more.”
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.9Conference XX
“But thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I felt no pain; and they mocked me, but I felt not.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxiii. 33–35.
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“…temporal and corrupt, so that these words of Solomon fairly apply to us: “They smite me but I have not grieved, and they have mocked me, but I knew it not.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxiii. 35.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.11Conference XXIV
“…grieved: and they mocked me but I knew it not;’ or this that is said in the Prophet: ‘And strangers have devoured his strength, but he himself knew it not’), because day after day they ceaselessly drag down your mind to earthly things, and change it in accordance with the variations of chance; but also because…” — editor's note: Prov. xxiii. 35 (LXX.); Hos. vii. 9.
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Gregory the Great
“When shall I awake and again find wine (Prov. xxiii. 35)?” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.11.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.11.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.11.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.33.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XX.9.