Proverbs 1:21
At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- in capite turbarum clamitat ; in foribus portarum urbis profert verba sua, dicens :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπ᾽ ἄκρων δὲ τειχέων κηρύσσεται, ἐπὶ δὲ πύλαις δυναστῶν παρεδρεύει, ἐπὶ δὲ πύλαις πόλεως θαρροῦσα λέγει
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הֹמִיּ֗וֹת תִּ֫קְרָ֥א בְּפִתְחֵ֖י שְׁעָרִ֥ים בָּעִ֗יר אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ תֹאמֵֽר
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book V, Chapter XX. Those pastors are to be
1. Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which fact I have in the third book taken all pains to demonstrate. It follows, then, as a matter of course, that these heretics aforementioned, since they are blind to the truth, and deviate from the [right] way, will walk in various roads; and therefore the footsteps of their doctrine are scattered here and there without agreement or connection. …