Proverbs 8:36
But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui autem in me peccaverit, lædet animam suam ; omnes qui me oderunt diligunt mortem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἱ δὲ εἰς ἐμὲ ἁμαρτάνοντες ἀσεβοῦσιν τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχάς, καὶ οἱ μισοῦντές με ἀγαπῶσιν θάνατον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְֽ֭חֹטְאִי חֹמֵ֣ס נַפְשׁ֑וֹ כָּל מְ֝שַׂנְאַ֗י אָ֣הֲבוּ מָֽוֶת
Haydock's commentary
Death. Not in itself, (Haydock) but by adhering to such things as bring death. (Menochius)
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 A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, Further Appeals to Cyprian’s Teaching
Does that holy and so memorable instructor of the Churches in the word of truth, deny that there is free will in men, because he attributes to God the whole of your righteous living? Does he reproach God’s law, because he intimates that man is not justified by it, seeing that he declares that what that law commands must be obtained from the Lord God by prayers? Does he assert fate under the name of grace, by saying that we must boast in nothing, since nothing is our own? Does he, like these, believe that the Holy Spirit is in such wise the aider of virtue, as if that very virtue which it assists springs from ourselves, when, asserting that nothing is our own, he mentions in this respect that the apostle said, “For what hast thou that thou hast not received?” and says that the most excellent virtue, that is, patience, does not begin from us, and afterwards receive aid by the Spirit of God …