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Proverbs 24:6Prov.24.6

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car tu feras la guerre avec prudence, Et le salut est dans le grand nombre des conseillers.

KJV

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    re military prudence pertains to fortitude rather than to prudence. On the contrary, It is written ( Prov. 24:6 ): "War is managed by due ordering, and there shall be safety where there are many counsels." Now it belongs to prudence to take counsel. Therefore there is great need…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 102 (Migne)

    lcoratur (Prov. XXVII, 9) . Cum dispositione initur bellum, et erit salus ubi multa consilia sunt (Prov. XXIV, 6) . Magna etenim res est consilium, et regibus valde necessarium, et non parvipendendum, sed super aurum et argentum constituendum. Et hoc idipsum divina approbat Scr…

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