Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Antequam conteratur, exaltatur cor hominis, et antequam glorificetur, humiliatur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πρὸ συντριβῆς ὑψοῦται καρδία ἀνδρός, καὶ πρὸ δόξης ταπεινοῦται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לִפְנֵי שֶׁ֭בֶר יִגְבַּ֣הּ לֵב אִ֑ישׁ וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָב֣וֹד עֲנָוָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine City of God, That in Adam’s Sin an Evil Will Preceded the Evil Act
The devil, then, would not have ensnared man in the open and manifest sin of doing what God had forbidden, had man not already begun to live for himself. It was this that made him listen with pleasure to the words, “Ye shall be as gods,” which they would much more readily have accomplished by obediently adhering to their supreme and true end than by proudly living to themselves. For created gods are gods not by virtue of what is in themselves, but by a participation of the true God. By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from Him who truly suffices him. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Abigaus
1. Although I am conscious of many sins and every day pray on bended knees, “Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions, yet because I know that it has been said by the Apostle “let a man not be lifted up with pride lest he fall into the condemnation of the devil,” and that it is written in another passage, “God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble,” there is nothing I have striven so much to avoid from my boyhood up as a swelling mind and a stiff neck, things which always provoke against themselves the wrath of God. …