Proverbs 8:3
Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- juxta portas civitatis, in ipsis foribus loquitur, dicens :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- παρὰ γὰρ πύλαις δυναστῶν παρεδρεύει, ἐν δὲ εἰσόδοις ὑμνεῖται
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לְיַד שְׁעָרִ֥ים לְפִי קָ֑רֶת מְב֖וֹא פְתָחִ֣ים תָּרֹֽנָּה
Haydock's commentary
Doors. Amid disputants, whose eagerness ought to convince us of the preference due to wisdom over all terrestrial concerns, ver. 10.
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 Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXXVII
8. “Blessed is the man who hath filled his desire from them” ( ver. 5 ). Well, my brethren, who filleth his desire from them? Who loveth not the world. He who is filled with the desire of the world, hath no room for that to enter which they have preached. Pour forth what thou carriest, and become fit for that which thou hast not. That is, thou desirest riches: thou canst not fill thy desire from them: thou desirest honours upon earth, thou desirest those things which God hath given even unto beasts of burden, that is, temporal pleasure, bodily health, and the like; thou wilt not fulfil thy desire from them.…“He shall not be ashamed, when he speaketh with his enemies in the gate.” Brethren, let us speak in the gate, that is, let all know what we speak. …