Ecclesiasticus 38:25
The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.
Challoner: A scribeThat is, a doctor of the law, or, a learned man.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sapientia scribæ in tempore vacuitatis, et qui minoratur actu sapientiam percipiet, qua sapientia replebitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
A scribe; that is, a doctor of the law, or a learned man. (Challoner)
Sorrow (Haydock) and too much employment, are injurious to learning. (Calmet)
Sapientiæ otia negotia sunt. (St. Bernard, ser. 85. Cant.)
When pastors have leisure, they would do well to write, in imitation of St. Paul, &c. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.