Wisdom 3:15
For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Bonorum enim laborum gloriosus est fructus, et quæ non concidat radix sapientiæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀγαθῶν γὰρ πόνων ὁ καρπὸς εὐκλεής, καὶ ἀδιάπτωτος ἡ ῥίζα τῆς φρονήσεως.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen Panegyric on His Brother S. Cæsarius
14. This victory I esteem far more sublime and honourable than the Emperor’s mighty power and splendid purple and costly diadem. I am more elated in describing it than if he had won from him the half of his Empire. During the evil days he lived in retirement, obedient herein to our Christian law, which bids us, when occasion offers, to make ventures on behalf of the truth, and not be traitors to our religion from cowardice; yet refrain, as long as may be, from rushing into danger, either in fear for our own souls, or to spare those who bring the danger upon us. …