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Louis Segond 1910
Un envoyé méchant tombe dans le malheur, Mais un messager fidèle apporte la guérison.
KJV
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador [is] health.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 204 (Migne)
t frigus nivis in die messis, ita legatus fidelis ei qui misit illum, animum ejus requiescere facit (Prov. XIII, 17) , sua effecit industria, ut et captivitate dux solveretur, et illata duci et regno injuria Fresonibus ab imperatore donaretur. 12. Leodium inde regressus, Domini…
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