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Louis Segond 1910
Celui qui travaille, travaille pour lui, Car sa bouche l'y excite.
KJV
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)
; prius, inquam, Anima namque laborantis, juxta Salomonem, laborat sibi, quia compulit eum os suum (Prov. XVI, 26) . Propter officium sane praedicationis, ne praedicans reprobus inveniatur, extendi admodum solet exercitium [Col. 0203A] piae operationis. Et contra: Abscondit, in…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 185 (Migne)
ecordor verbi quod apud Sapientem inveni: Anima laborantis laborat sibi, quia compulit eum os suum (Prov. XVI, 26) . Loquar igitur, non [Col. 0162D] 1012 prout locus expetit, sed prout sensus suppetit, imo prout Dominus dederit, in cujus manu sumus et nos, et sermones nostri. L…
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