OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 3:12

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12

for whom the LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

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Verse 12. And as. Septuagint “but he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth,” as Saint Paul quotes this passage. Hebrews 12:6. The verb is now wanting in Hebrew or ceab; “as a father” may signify “scourgeth, in piel, ( Menochius.) with i prefixed. Calmet.

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