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Louis Segond 1910
Ce n'est pas par des paroles qu'on châtie un esclave; Même s'il comprend, il n'obéit pas.
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A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 198 (Migne)
nolunt. Imitantes illum, de quo dicit Salomon, quia quod dicis, intelligit, et respondere contemnit (Prov. XXIX, 19) . Vos autem, fratres, non sic. Vultis audire virum sanctum, recte de his sentientem? Loquere, Domine, quia audit servus tuus (I Reg. III, 10) . Samuel hic erat…
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