Provérbios 24
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Provérbios 24:16
The words "falls seven times" are employed to express every kind of tribulation, whereby one is cast down in the sight of people; and the words "rises up again" signify that one profits from all these tribulations. — EXPLANATIONS OF THE PSALMS 119:162
Provérbios 24:16
"The just falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked shall be weakened in evils." When evils befall the wicked, they are weakened by them. When evils befall the righteous, "the Lord strengthens all that are falling" … "and lifts up all those that have been cast down": all, that is, who belong to him, for "God resists the proud." — EXPLANATIONS OF THE PSALMS 145:13
Provérbios 24:16
The text, "For a just man shall fall seven times and shall rise again," means that he will not perish, however often he falls. There is here no question of falling into sins but of afflictions leading to a lower life. — City of God 11.31