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Prov 24:30

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 24:30 · Douay-Rheims

“I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1274

A.D.

Bonaventure Medieval

c. A.D. 1221–1274

“In Proverbs: "I passed by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man without sense; and behold! it was all overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall broken down." This happens when a man has good intentions but does not fulfill them: then it is that the thistles of malice and the nettles of cupidity come to grow. The stone wall of the virtues is destroyed because of the dissipation of thoughts.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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