Proverbs 6:33
He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- turpitudinem et ignominiam congregat sibi, et opprobrium illius non delebitur :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὀδύνας τε καὶ ἀτιμίας ὑποφέρει· τὸ δὲ ὄνειδος αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐξαλειφθήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- נֶֽגַע וְקָל֥וֹן יִמְצָ֑א וְ֝חֶרְפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א תִמָּחֶֽה
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Modesty, Chapter XVIII
For even in the Proverbs, which we call Parœmiæ, Solomon specially (treats) of the adulterer (as being) nowhere admissible to expiation. “But the adulterer,” he says, “through indigence of senses acquireth perdition to his own soul; sustaineth dolors and disgraces. His ignominy, moreover, shall not be wiped away for the age. For indignation, full of jealousy, will not spare the man in the day of judgment.” If you think this said about a heathen, at all events about believers you have already heard (it said) through Isaiah: “Go out from the midst of them, and be separate, and touch not the impure.” You have at the very outset of the Psalms, “Blessed the man who hath not gone astray in the counsel of the impious, nor stood in the way of sinners, and sat in the state-chair of pestilence;” whose voice, withal, (is heard) subsequently: “I have not sat with the conclave of vanity; and with the …