Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Pour tous ceux qui vivent il y a de l'espérance; et même un chien vivant vaut mieux qu'un lion mort.
KJV
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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one. (Psalm 21:21). And in another part, in Ecclesiastes: A living dog is better than a dead lion. (Ecclesiastes 9:4). Here they think the lion is the devil, but the dog is the gentile or sinful man: because he can come to faith or repentance, but the other does not. Also, a dog…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 157 (Migne)
ia, fecit cleptim, eodem significatu.] cleptim involavit, invisibilibus canis vivus, a leone mortuo (Eccl. IX, 4) , imo dormiente, steterit ligatus nexibus; nec usquam niti et se proripere, neque praedam, quam in vultus sui confusionem, permissus est subripere, ullo nisu potuerit…
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