Proverbs 30:29 (WEB)
“There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:
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Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §13On Proverbs
““There be three things which go well, and the fourth which is comely in going;” that is, the angels in heaven, the saints upon earth, and the souls of the righteous under the earth.” — editor's note: Prov. xxx. 29, etc. [As in Vulgate.]
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“There are in the Book of Proverbs three things which go well, a lion, a goat, and a cock; and to these is added a fourth;—a King making a speech before the people, to pass over the other sets of four which are there counted up, although things of various natures.” — editor's note: Prov. xxx. 29, 30. 31.
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