“Better is the poor who walks in his simplicity, etc. Better is the simple hearer of the word of God, if he completes by working those things which he could understand in the Scriptures; than any learned person, if in those things which he has acutely understood, he twists his lips to preach heresy.”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
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1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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— Proverbs 19:1 —
2Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
3The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.