Proverbs 12:7
Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verte impios, et non erunt ; domus autem justorum permanebit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὗ ἐὰν στραφῇ, ἀσεβὴς ἀφανίζεται, οἶκοι δὲ δικαίων παραμένουσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הָפ֣וֹךְ רְשָׁעִ֣ים וְאֵינָ֑ם וּבֵ֖ית צַדִּיקִ֣ים יַעֲמֹֽד
Haydock's commentary
Turn. In a moment the wicked is not to be found, chap. x. 25., and Psalm xxxvi. 35.
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius Defence of Dionysius. (De Sententia Dionysii.), De Sententia Dionysii. (Defence of Dionysius.)
Of a truth one that hears this is reminded of the divine oracle which says, ‘whithersoever the impious turns, he is destroyed’ ( Prov. xii. 7 , LXX). For lo! turning subtly in each direction these impious men are destroyed, having even here no excuse as touching Dionysius. For he teaches openly that the Son is not a thing made or created, while he taxes and corrects those who accuse him of having said that God was the creator (of Christ), in that they failed to notice that he had previously spoken of God as Father, in which expression the Son also is implied. But in saying thus, he shews that the Son is not one of the creatures, and that God is not the maker but the Father of His own Word. And since certain had ignorantly objected to him that he called God the maker of Christ, he defends himself in various ways, shewing that not even here is what he said open to blame. …