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Proverbs 24:27

Western Saints

Bede

Prepare your work outside, etc. What is it to diligently cultivate the field with prepared labor, except to root out the thorns of iniquities and perfect our action for the fruit of retribution? And what is it to return to building the house after cultivating the field, if not that we often learn from good works how much purity of life we ought to establish in thought? …

Commentary on Proverbs ↗

Bonaventure

This happens when a man has good intentions but does not fulfill them: then it is that the thistles of malice and the nettles of cupidity come to grow. The stone wall of the virtues is destroyed because of the dissipation of thoughts. Hence, in the same text: "complete your outdoor tasks, and arrange your work in the field."

Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 19 ↗