Proverbs 4:27 (WEB)
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
Fathers and councils · 4
Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §13On Proverbs
“Virtue occupies the middle position; whence also he says, that manly courage is the mean between boldness and cowardice.” — editor's note: Ch. iv. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Of Whom in another place is said, “For Himself shall make thy courses right, and shall prolong thy goings in peace” through Jesus Christ our Lord, whose Sacrament in this world, as it…” — editor's note: Prov. iv. 27, LXX.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But we must really walk in the King’s highway, and take care not to turn aside from it either to the right hand or to the left, as the Proverbs say.” — editor's note: Prov. iv. 27.
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John Cassian
“And so we are warned by Solomon, the wisest of men: “Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left;” i.e., do not flatter yourself on your virtues and be puffed up by your spiritual achievements on the right hand; nor, swerving to the path of vices on the left…” — editor's note: Prov. iv. 27 (LXX.).
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in The Institutes XI.4.
Cited together in The Institutes XI.4.
Cited together in The Institutes XI.4.