Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsProverbs 30
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Read Proverbs 30 in the BibleProverbs 30:23
A bond-woman when she shall be heir.
Of all things in this world, it seemeth most absurd, that heresy doth domineer over Catholic religion; ◦ which God sometimes; and in some places suffereth, for the greater merit of his elect.
- ◦ Why God suffereth heresy to reign.
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Proverbs 30:1
The words of the Gatherer.
[1] Some Interpreters take these four Hebrew words, Agur, Iache, Ithiel, and Vcal, contained in this first verse, to be proper names of men, supposing that a certain wiseman named Agur, the son of Iache, spake the sentences following in this chapter, to his sons or scholars, called Ithiel & Vcal. And so this supposed, Agur, not Salomon, should be the author of this chapter. But the old Interpreter, whom S. Jerome approveth and followeth, translated the same words as nouns appellatives. Neither doth any ancient Father account this Agur amongst the writers of holy Scriptures. And if there were a peculiar author of this chapter, it is like the same should have been placed last, and not before that which now followeth, and is by all men confessed to be Salomon's. And therefore we think it more probable, with S. Beda, and the common opinion, that there was no other author of any part of this book, besides King Salomon. Who is here called Congregans, the Gatherer, [2] because he gathered these excellent Parables, and Proverbs; as the son of the Holy Ghost, signified by the word Iache, pouring forth divine sentences, for instruction of Ithiel & Vcal, that is, of all those with whom God is by his grace; and who are strengthened by God abiding with them.