John Damascene

Late Patristic · AD 500–800

201 passages across 33 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Proverbs

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  1. Proverbs 18:3
    The more those greater sins grow on them, the more does the soul become accustomed to them and think light of them. For it is said, “When the wicked comes to the depth of evil things, he thinks light of them.”

    BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 19:172

  2. Proverbs 22:28
    He has revealed to us what it was expedient for us to know, whereas that which we were unable to bear he has withheld. With these things let us be content, and in them let us abide, and let us not step over the ancient bounds or pass beyond the divine tradition.

    ORTHODOX FAITH 1:1

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