 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.  Milton - Página 98por Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 144 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Leighton - 1822 - 500 páginas
...are " not to answer a fool, so as to be like unto him ;" yet we are, by all means, to " answer him according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit ;" again, because a criminal forgetfulness of this leading truth is the sole source of all the wickedness... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 446 páginas
...thought the lowest degradation that human nature could well sink itself to. Hence, says the wise man, Prov. xxvi. 5, " Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit :" hereby showing, that self-conceitedness is a degree beneath ordinary folly. And therefore he there... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 454 páginas
...thought the lowest degradation that human nature could well sink itself to. . Hence, says the wise man, Prov. xxvi. 5, " Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit :" hereby showing, that self-conceitedness is a degree beneath ordinary folly. And therefore he there... | |
 | Gilbert Gerard - 1823 - 462 páginas
...46, n. Prov. xxvi. 4, 5. " Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." Contradictory — no reason — Syr. " According to thine own wisdom" So Chald. inSisO repeated from... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1090 páginas
...them before the feet of the ignorant and unwary ; and were we not commanded, on some occasions, ' to answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' The gods, mentioned in these mistaken passages, are no other than such as the vine in the fable, Judges... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 562 páginas
...them before the feet of the ignorant and unwary ; and were we not commanded, on some occasions, ' to answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' The gods, mentio'ned in these mistaken passages, are no other than such as the vine in the fable, Judges... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 páginas
...silver. — Prov. xxv. 11. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. — Prov. xxvi. 4, 5. Let another man praise thee, not thine own mouth : a stranger, not thine own... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 páginas
...for the fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto Jiim. repH 0 6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool, cutteth off the feet mill drinketh damage. 7 '['he... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 528 páginas
...to sow. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest them aUo be like unto him. — Proy. xxvi. 1. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. — Pror. x\vi. 5. A " FOOL," in the sense of scripture, means a wicked man, or one who acts contrary... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 536 páginas
...sow. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest than also be like »nt» him. — Prov. \xvi- 4. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own con•ceit. — Prov. xxvi. 6. A " POOL," in the sense of scripture, means a wicked man, <ir one who acts contrary... | |
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