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Louis Segond 1910
Il y a de l'or et beaucoup de perles; Mais les lèvres savantes sont un objet précieux.
KJV
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 104 (Migne)
s, ad unum profecto, eumdemque spiritalis expositio finem respicit. Dictum quippe est de Sapientia: (Prov. XX, 15) Quia aurum est, et multitudo gemmarum: atque ideo clusores horum, non alios aptius, quam doctores intelligere valemus, qui quandiu recte vivunt, ac docent, in ornatu…
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