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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
The church was admonished to shun the beginning of sin. Which is that beginning of sin, like the head of a serpent? The beginning of all sin is pride.
Jerome
"His talk begins as foolishness and ends as evil madness. The fool prates on and on, but man does not know what will be; and who can tell him what will be after him? "So far the discussion has been about the fool, whose lips teach the wise man, or according to another interpretation, his lips make himself corrupt. The beginning and the end of his speech are foolishness and evil madness; or as Symmachus has translated it, confusion, or some kind of inconsistency of words. …
Bonaventure
And the reason for precipitousness is indiscretion, because he indiscreetly inclines: whence he says: The beginning of his words is folly. And the reason for this is that he does not consider, whence Proverbs twenty-nine: "Have you seen a man swift to speak? …
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