Proverbs 8:6
Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Audite, quoniam de rebus magnis locutura sum, et aperientur labia mea ut recta prædicent.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσακούσατέ μου· σεμνὰ γὰρ ἐρῶ, καὶ ἀνοίσω ἀπὸ χειλέων ὀρθά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שִׁ֭מְעוּ כִּֽי נְגִידִ֣ים אֲדַבֵּ֑ר וּמִפְתַּ֥ח שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י מֵישָׁרִֽים
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. …