Provérbios 26
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Provérbios 26:11
Don't you know that people so unconcerned about their own salvation and vacillating between attention to it and headlong course into the devil's net are compared in sacred Scripture with dogs? It says, remember, "The person who turns away from his sin and then goes back to it is like a dog returning to its vomit." — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 6:2
Provérbios 26:12
This is not a small fault either to consider oneself wise and to refer everything back to one's own judgment.… Paul addresses this same reproach to the pagan philosophers: "Professing to be wise, they become fools." This is the reason for their folly. The author of the Proverbs said on his part, "Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him." Again, it is Paul who gives this advice: "Do not be wise in your own opinion." — COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 5:21
Provérbios 26:27
"He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it." And this happened even then. For they wished to destroy [Jesus] in order to suppress his preaching, but just the opposite took place. His preaching flourished by the grace of Christ, whereas all their schemes have been snuffed out and have perished. Further, they have lost their homeland, and freedom, and security and worship, and have been deprived of all honor and glory, and become slaves and captives.Accordingly, since we know these things, let us never plot against others, because we have learned that by so doing we are sharpening the sword against ourselves and wounding ourselves more deeply than others. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 51