Proverbs 2:13
Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui relinquunt iter rectum, et ambulant per vias tenebrosas ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὦ οἱ ἐγκαταλείποντες ὁδοὺς εὐθείας τοῦ πορεύεσθαι ἐν ὁδοῖς σκότους,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַ֭עֹ֣זְבִים אָרְח֣וֹת יֹ֑שֶׁר לָ֝לֶ֗כֶת בְּדַרְכֵי חֹֽשֶׁךְ
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.), First Arian Persecution under Constantius
And many other things he did, which exceed the power of language to describe, and which whoever should hear would think to be incredible. And the reason why he acted thus was, because he had not received his ordination according to ecclesiastical rule, nor had been called to be a Bishop by apostolical tradition; but had been sent out from court with military power and pomp, as one entrusted with a secular government. Wherefore he boasted rather to be the friend of Governors, than of Bishops and Monks. Whenever, therefore, our Father Antony wrote to him from the mountains, as godliness is an abomination to a sinner, so he abhorred the letters of the holy man. …