Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
De peur que, dans l'abondance, je ne te renie Et ne dise: Qui est l'Eternel? Ou que, dans la pauvreté, je ne dérobe, Et ne m'attaque au nom de mon Dieu.
KJV
Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].
Methodius
De Libero Arbitrio
des Todes« ist, aber überzugehen auf den schmalen und unfreundlichen Weg, denn 1 Mt. 16, 26 — 3 vgl. Prov. 30, 9 — 6 Jerem. 23, 24 — 10 Phil. 2, 7 — 12 Luk. 6, 20 (Mt. 5, 3) — 14 Luk. 6, 24 — 15 Symp. S. 130, 4f — 19 vgl. 1I Kor. 4, 18 — 21 Luk. 4, 8 — 26 Luk. 4, 6 — 27 Luk. 4, 7…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
l he has and embraces voluntary poverty exposes himself to danger---not only spiritual, according to Prov. 30:9, "Lest perhaps . . . being compelled by poverty, I should steal and forswear the name of my God," and Ecclus. 27:1, "Through poverty many have sinned"---but also corpor…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
t quam: Fiat voluntas tua in coelo et in terra? Qui dicit: Paupertatem et divitias ne dederis mihi (Prov. XXX, 9) , quid aliud dicit quam: Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie? Qui dicit: Memento, Domine, David, et omnis mansuetudinis ejus (Psal. CXXXI, 1) , aut: Domine, si…
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