Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cor sapientis quærit doctrinam, et os stultorum pascitur imperitia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καρδία ὀρθὴ ζητεῖ αἴσθησιν, στόμα δὲ ἀπαιδεύτων γνώσεται κακά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֵ֣ב נָ֭בוֹן יְבַקֶּשׁ דָּ֑עַת ופני כְ֝סִילִ֗ים יִרְעֶ֥ה אִוֶּֽלֶת
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XI. What is the Philosophy Which the Apostle Bids Us Shun?
The elements are worshipped, the air by Diogenes, the water by Thales, the fire by Hippasus; and by those who suppose atoms to be the first principles of things, arrogating the name of philosophers, being wretched creatures devoted to pleasure. “Wherefore I pray,” says the apostle, “that your love may abound yet more and more, in knowledge and in all judgment, that ye may approve things that are excellent.” “Since, when we were children,” says the same apostle, “we were kept in bondage under the rudiments of the world. And the child, though heir, differeth nothing from a servant, till the time appointed of the father.” Philosophers, then, are children, unless they have been made men by Christ. “For if the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free,” at least he is the seed of Abraham, though not of promise, receiving what belongs to him by free gift. …