Provérbios 14
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Provérbios 14:1
"The wise women built up their homes." The church built its house with its patience and hope in Christ, that is, it has roused and restored those entering it with its doctrine and faith. "The foolish destroyed it with her own hand." This is the heresy which becomes the cause for their eternal death. — COMMENTARY ON THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, FRAGMENT 14:1
Provérbios 14:2
"He who walks straight, fears the Lord." Not just any fear makes people walk straight, but the fear of God.… A life provided with virtue is quite illustrious, but the addition of fear makes persons more religious. — COMMENTARY ON THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, FRAGMENT 14:2
Provérbios 14:29
Do you not see the athletes, how they exercise when they have filled the bags with sand? But there is no need for you to practice this. Life is full of things that exercise you and make you strong.… For it is said, "One who is long-suffering abounds in wisdom, but he who is small of soul is strongly foolish." — ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 19:5
Provérbios 14:31
"He who slanders the poor irritates his own Maker." Here there are two sins: slander and opposition to the poor. Why does he irritate his Maker? His Maker certainly made him and made it easy for him to be subjected to a tongue of a slanderer. "He who really honors God has pity upon the needy." If God made the poor, why must the poor be pitied? Certainly I heard many saying: Is there any need to pity the poor man whom God would have not made poor if he loved him? How long will we play with our salvation? How long will we laugh at things in which the one who is wicked and loaded with countless sins should tremble and fear and be terrified? Tell me then whom God did favor: did he favor either Lazarus or the rich man? This is what ruins us, the fact that we easily slip into [bad] jokes. — COMMENTARY ON THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, FRAGMENT 14:31