Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Qu'ils soient pour toi seul, Et non pour des étrangers avec toi.
KJV
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
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hat does it mean when it says, "Let your springs be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers" (Proverbs 5:17)? He calls them foreign demons, about whom the Psalmist said: "Foreigners have risen up against me, and the mighty have sought my soul" (Psalm fifty-three, verse fi…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 182 (Migne)
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