Proverbs 6:35
Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- nec acquiescet cujusquam precibus, nec suscipiet pro redemptione dona plurima.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἀνταλλάξεται οὐδενὸς λύτρου τὴν ἔχθραν, οὐδὲ μὴ διαλυθῇ πολλῶν δώρων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹא יִ֭שָּׂא פְּנֵ֣י כָל כֹּ֑פֶר וְלֹֽא יֹ֝אבֶ֗ה כִּ֣י תַרְבֶּה שֹֽׁחַד
Haydock's commentary
Gifts. "A husband would rather hear that his wife had been slain, than that she had been defiled." (St. Jerome in Amos vi.)
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 John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, Titus 2:2-5
And that servants are required to be thus disposed towards a Gentile master, I will show you by an example. Joseph, who was of a different religion from the Egyptian, was sold to the chief cook. What then did he? When he saw the young man was virtuous, he did not consider the difference of their religion, but loved and favored and admired him, and committed the others to his superintendence, and knew nothing of the affairs of his own house because of him. Thus he was a second master, and even more of a master than his lord, for he knew more of his master’s affairs than his master himself. And even afterwards, as it seems to me, when he believed the unjust accusation framed against him by his wife, yet from his former regard for him, retaining a respect for that just man, he satisfied his resentment with imprisonment. …