THEOSISNikolaj Velimirovic
O my brethren, the Christian teaching is the only reasonable teaching about peace and well-being. Everything else is madness and folly, for how could servants build a house on their Lord's land without His permission and support?
Proverbs 1:32Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
כִּ֤י מְשׁוּבַ֣ת פְּתָיִ֣ם תַּֽהַרְגֵ֑ם וְשַׁלְוַ֖ת כְּסִילִ֣ים תְּאַבְּדֵֽם׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
2 Church Fathers comment on this verse
Vissarion (Nechaev)
The execution, determined by human courts in the temporal realm and by divine judgment in the eternal, represents just retribution for those who have harmed the innocent, specifically those vulnerable as infants, devoid of power and unable to defend themselves. The purity and helplessness of these young ones failed to instill compassion in the vicious wrongdoers, and thus, the divine justice will exact an unyielding response against them.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 8:36But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
- Heb 12:25See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.
- John 3:36He that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life: but the wrath of God abideth on him.
- Jer 2:19Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
- Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.
- Luke 16:25And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.
- Luke 12:16And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits.
- Luke 12:21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.