Holy Scripture

Proverbs 1:14

A church father on this verse
“"Cast in your lot with us," etc. A purse is a sack of money. It is evident about robbers that, to gather more accomplices in crime, they promise them a share of the booty they have taken. But also the persecutors of our Redeemer, whoever they could, they joined to themselves. But those whom they saw following him, the…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs

Source: Septuagint

Original

14But do thou cast in thy lot with us, And let us all provide a common purse, And let us have one pouch:

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12And let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, And remove the memorial of him from the earth:

13Let us seize on his valuable property, And let us fill our houses with spoils:

— Proverbs 1:14 —

15Go not in the way with them, But turn aside thy foot from their paths:

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