Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Le serviteur qu'on traite mollement dès l'enfance Finit par se croire un fils.
KJV
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become [his] son at the length.
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become [his] son at the length.
KJV
Hebrew original
מְפַנֵּ֣ק מִ/נֹּ֣עַר עַבְדּ֑/וֹ וְ֝/אַחֲרִית֗/וֹ יִהְיֶ֥ה מָנֽוֹן
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 153 (Migne)
m est quod Salomon ait: Qui delicate a pueritia nutrit servum suum, postea eum sentiet contumacem (Prov. XXIX, 21) . Nonne tantum, taleque possidere bonum, quemdam est possidere paradisum? Nam elevati estis supra mundum, de cujus amatore Dominus dicit, quia Induebatur purpura e…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 154 (Migne)
erat illud veridicum Salomonis proverbium: Qui nutrit servum delicate, sentiet illum contumacem (Prov. XXIX, 21) . Quid faceret, quo se verteret anxia mens viri Dei? Cilicio itaque obvolvitur, cinere aspergitur, et, in excubias commissi gregis pervigiles noctes ducens, Deum pr…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 198 (Migne)
a. Delicate aliquando nutritus servus ille malus et piger, contumax, ut promittit Salomon, sentitur (Prov. XXIX, 21) . Eva furit; illicitam viro comestionem suggerit (Gen. III, 6, 17) . Insurgunt, et germinant, atque in immensum crescunt, ipsa rigante et excolente, quas in agro c…
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