“"Blessed is the man who listens to me," etc. He calls his doors and the posts of his gate the Holy Scriptures and their teachers, without whom we cannot enter into the life he promises.”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
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34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
— Proverbs 8:34 —
35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.