Holy Scripture

Proverbs 30:21

A church father on this verse
“The shaking (of the earth) signifies the change of things upon earth.-Sin, then, which in its own nature is a slave, has reigned in the mortal body of men: once, indeed, at the time of the flood; and again in the time of the Sodomites, who, not satisfied with what the land yielded, offered violence to strangers; and a…”
Hippolytus of Rome, 3th c. — Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture

Source: Septuagint

Original

21By three things the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear:

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19the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.

20Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing * amiss.

— Proverbs 30:21 —

22if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;

23or if a maidservant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.

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