Holy Scripture
Proverbs 1:13
A church father on this verse
“There is one text in Proverbs so far from being obscure that its relationship to Christ and his possession, the church, can be grasped without any such trouble. Wicked men are speaking: "Let us unjustly hide away in the earth the just man, let us swallow him up alive like hell. Let us abolish his memory from the earth…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13Let us seize on his valuable property, And let us fill our houses with spoils:
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11If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, And let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:
12And let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, And remove the memorial of him from the earth:
— Proverbs 1:13 —
14But do thou cast in thy lot with us, And let us all provide a common purse, And let us have one pouch:
15Go not in the way with them, But turn aside thy foot from their paths: