\5:1\Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
BBE-1949
Hebrew original
CRAMPON-1923
Prends garde à ton pied quand tu vas à la maison de Dieu ; s’approcher pour écouter vaut mieux que d’offrir des victimes à la manière des insensés ; car leur ignorance les conduit à faire mal. 5
BBE-1949
\5:1\Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
herefore is it performed with greater solemnity than the other sacraments. And since it is written ( Eccles. 4:17 ): "Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of God"; and ( Ecclus. 18:23 ): "Before prayer prepare thy soul," therefore the celebration of this mystery is preced…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 95 (Migne)
m esse Grantcestriam. Nam ex Baeda constat civitatulam illam his temporibus fuisse desolatam (Hist. eccl. IV, 17) . Et certissimum videtur, deficiente illa vel potius sedem suam aliquatenus mutante, Cantabrigiam ex ruinis ejus emersisse. Procul dubio Aluredi temporibus Cantabrig…
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