Proverbs 8:4
O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- O viri, ad vos clamito, et vox mea ad filios hominum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ὑμᾶς, ὦ ἄνθρωποι, παρακαλῶ, καὶ προίεμαι ἐμὴν φωνὴν υἱοῖς ἀνθρώπων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲלֵיכֶ֣ם אִישִׁ֣ים אֶקְרָ֑א וְ֝קוֹלִ֗י אֶל בְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chapter X. That the Same God, by the Same Word, Restrains from Sin by Threatening, and Saves Humanity by Exhorting
For the persuasive style of sentence in one form becomes hortatory, and in another dehortatory. So also the panegyrical in one form becomes inculpatory, and in another laudatory. And in these exercises the Instructor, the Just One, who has proposed our advantage as His aim, is chiefly occupied. But the inculpatory and dehortatory forms of speech have been already shown us; and we must now handle the persuasive and the laudatory, and, as on a beam, balance the equal scales of justice. The exhortation to what is useful, the Instructor employs by Solomon, to the following effect: “I exhort you, O men; and I utter my voice to the sons of men. Hear me; for I will speak of excellent things;” and so on. …
St Hilary of Poitiers De Trinitate or On the Trinity, Book XII
44. Learn at last, heretic, from the revelation of Catholic teaching, what is the meaning of the saying that Christ was created for the beginning of the ways of God and for His works; and be taught by the words of Wisdom itself the folly of your impious dulness. For thus it begins: If I shall declare unto you the things which are done every day, I will remember to recount those things which are from of old . For Wisdom had said before, You, O men, I entreat, and I utter my voice to the sons of men. O ye simple, understand subtilty, moreover ye unlearned, apply your heart ; and again, Through Me kings reign, and mighty men decree justice. …