Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Frappe le moqueur, et le sot deviendra sage; Reprends l'homme intelligent, et il comprendra la science.
KJV
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
f others, that at least they may be deterred from crime through fear of the punishment, according to Prov. 19:25 : "The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser." Accordingly the eternal punishments inflicted by God on the reprobate, are medicinal punishments for those…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
avit, sed ut fieret quod scriptum est: [Col. 1233B] «Pestilente flagellato stultus sapientior erit (Prov. XIX, 25) ; ut per paucorum validam correptionem multi ab errore corrigerentur et emendarentur. Unde et sancti Patres nostri in conciliis suis diversas disciplinas et excommu…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
liorum flagella audientes corrigerentur, ut illud: Pestilente flagellato, astutior redditur sapiens (Prov. XIX, 25) ; et: Laetabitur justus, cum viderit (Psal. LVII, 11) , etc. Quod si nosmetipsos, etc. Et bene, quia ille qui suas actiones malas agnoscendo corrigit et emendat,…
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