“It is good for the … feet … that they be not swift to shed blood or to run to evil, but that they be prompted to run to the gospel and the prize of the high calling, and to receive Christ who washes and cleanses them.”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON HOLY BAPTISM, ORATION 40:39
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16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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In context
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
— Proverbs 1:16 —
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.