Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 25:23

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 251, footnote 5 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3493 (In-Text, Margin)

... given to detraction, but how can I check others who are?’ If we put forward such a plea as this it can only be that we may “practise wicked works with men that work iniquity.” Yet Christ is not deceived by this device. It is not I but an apostle who says: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked.” “Man looketh upon the outward appearance but the Lord looketh upon the heart.” And in the proverbs Solomon tells us that as “the north wind driveth away rain, so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.”[Proverbs 25:23] It sometimes happens that an arrow when it is aimed at a hard object rebounds upon the bowman, wounding the would-be wounder, and thus, the words are fulfilled, “they were turned aside like a deceitful bow,” and in another passage: “whoso casteth a ...