Scorpiace
Tertullian
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If the scorpion, swinging his tail in the air, still reproach
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Scorpiace
Tertullian
If the scorpion, swinging his tail in the air, still reproach
Prov. ix. 2: “She hath killed her beasts.” The corresponding words in the Septuagint are ἔσφαξε τα εαυτῆς θύματα. Augustine, in his De Civ. Dei, xvi. 20, explains the victims (θύματα) to be Martyrum victimas.—Tr.
Prov. i. 20, 21; see the Septuagint version.
Isa. xliv. 5.
Zech. xiii. 9.
Rom. viii. 32.
Rom. iv. 25.
Rom. xi. 34.