Chapter — Douay-Rheims
Proverbs 4
1.Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend, that you may know prudence.
2.I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
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3.For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
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- Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part (II-II), Question 177: The gratuitous grace consisting in words, art. 2
- Summa Theologica, Third Part (III), Question 37: Christ's circumcision, and of the other legal observances accomplished in regard to the child Christ, art. 2
- Summa Theologica, Third Part (III), Question 70: Circumcision, art. 3
4.And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
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5.Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
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- Tanquerey, Volume II. Fundamental Moral Theology; the Virtues and Precepts, On the Moral Virtues, n. 1058
- Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis, Volume II. On the Moral Virtues (1935), Special Moral Theology: On Moral Virtues, Treatise: On the Cardinal Virtue of Prudence and on the Annexed Virtues, First Part: On Prudence Itself, Question One: On Prudence According to Itself, Article III: On the Habit and Cause of Prudence, n. 15
6.Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
7.The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
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8.Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
9.She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
10.Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
11.I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
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12.Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
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13.Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
14.Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
15.Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
16.For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
17.They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
18.But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.
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- Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis, Volume I. On Principles (1935), General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Habits and Virtues in General, Third Part: On Habits According to Supernatural Being, or On Infused Virtues, Question Three: On the Cause of Infused Habits and Virtues, n. 640
- Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis, Volume I. On Principles (1935), Special Moral Theology, Treatise: On Divine Charity, First Part: On Charity Itself, Question Three: On Charity Considered as Regards the Subject, Article II: On the Increase of Charity, n. 867
- Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Secundae, On Grace, On the Merit of the Just, On the things that fall under merit, n. 28
- St. Alphonsus, True Spouse, Chapter IV: The Desire of Perfection, ¶ 403
- St. Alphonsus, True Spouse, Chapter XXII: The Love for Jesus, ¶ 2746
- Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part (I-II), Question 114: Merit, art. 8
- Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part (II-II), Question 14: Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, art. 4
19.The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
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20.My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
21.Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
22.For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
23.With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
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24.Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
25.Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
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- McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology, Volume II, Part II. Special Moral Theology (Continued), Question II. The Duties of All Classes of Men (the Moral Virtues), Art. 1. The Virtue of Prudence, n. 1668
- Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part (II-II), Question 53: Imprudence, art. 4
- Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part (II-II), Question 56: The precepts relating to prudence, art. 1
26.Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
27.Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.