“Lambs for your clothing, etc. He calls the innocent lambs, the penitent kids. You will be clothed with the fleece of the lambs, while you, the pastor, improve by the good manners of obedient disciples, and seeing their laudable deeds, you yourself will be more glorious both in the adornment of virtues and in the warmt…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
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26The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
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24For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
25The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
— Proverbs 27:26 —
27And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.