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Proverbs 6:12Prov.6.12

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

L'homme pervers, l'homme inique, Marche la fausseté dans la bouche;

KJV

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Patristic reading

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  • Salonius

    Mystical Exposition on the Proverbs of Solomon

    r preaching. About whom does Solomon speak: A deceitful and useless man walks with a perverse mouth Proverbs 6:12. He calls a man who abandons the faith a schismatic, someone who works to divide the unity of the Church. In what language is 'apostate' said? Greek translates in…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    nsist in some outward deed or utterance, or even in some inward act of the will, for it is written ( Prov. 6:12-14 ): "A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man walketh with a perverse mouth. He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger. With a…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    nothing that may be useful for the obtaining of eternal salvation, for which reason it is written ( Prov. 6:12 ): "A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man": because faith is the life of the soul, according to Rom. 1:17 : "The just man liveth by faith." Therefore, just as w…

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