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Proverbs 4:17

Proverbs 4:17 (WEB)

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

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  • “8. These women again renew the mixed cup for Fortune, and prepare the table for the demon and not for God, as it is written; and they eat the food of impiety, as the divine word says: And the women knead dough, and the sons will gather wood, to make cakes for the host of heaven. Let such women be silenced by Jeremiah, and let them not trouble the world; let them not say, We honour the queen of…” — the author cites it

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Fathers and saints 1Panarion 79.7–8Proverbs 4:17Scripture · 1 link

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