Proverbs 31:6

John Cassian

• John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.17Conference XIV

  “…drink to those who are in sorrow, and give wine to drink, to those who are in pain, that they may forget their poverty, and remember their pain no more,” i.e., to those who in consequence of the punishment of their past actions are oppressed with grief and sorrow, supply richly the joys of spiritual knowledge…” — editor's note: Prov. xxxi. 6, 7.

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Gregory of Nyssa

• Gregory of Nyssa, Funeral Oration on Meletius

  “…for he bids wine be given to the sorrowful; saying this to us, the labourers in the vineyard: “Give,” therefore, “your wine to those that are in sorrow,” not that wine which produces drunkenness, plots against the senses, and destroys the body, but such as gladdens the heart, the wine which the Prophet…” — editor's note: Prov. xxxi. 6. Just above πρὸς ἡμᾶς is the reading of Krabinger’s mss. and of the Paris Editt.: Sifanus and Ducæus have rendered ὑμᾶς.

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• Matthew 7:6

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• 2 Corinthians 2:7

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• Psalm 12:7

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• Psalm 15:5

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• Psalm 104:15

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• Psalm 119:11

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• Proverbs 14:23

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• Proverbs 18:2

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• Proverbs 19:10

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• Proverbs 23:9

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• Proverbs 24:15

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• Proverbs 29:19

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