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For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car à l'ombre de la sagesse on est abrité comme à l'ombre de l'argent; mais un avantage de la science, c'est que la sagesse fait vivre ceux qui la possèdent.

KJV

For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 94 (Migne)

    . D., Caesarea Palaestinae [Note: [Col. 0868D] Martyrum. Quorum hoc modo meminit Eusebius in Hist. Eccl. VII, 12: Porro in hac Valeriani persecutione tres viri post insignem Christi confessionem apud Caesaream Palaestinae ad bestias damnati, divino martyrio coronati sunt. ] mar…

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