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Clementine Latin Vulgate
Ecclesiastes 26:11
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Sicut canis qui revertitur ad vomitum suum,
sic imprudens qui iterat stultitiam suam.
Sicut canis, qui revertitur ad vomitum suum, sic stultus, qui iterat stultitiam suam.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a dog: Exodus 8:15, Matthew 12:45, 2 Peter 2:22
returneth to his folly: Heb. iterateth his folly
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:18 - dog Judges 16:4 - he loved Proverbs 23:35 - I will Ecclesiastes 7:25 - know Isaiah 28:8 - General Jeremiah 34:11 - General Matthew 7:6 - that Philippians 3:2 - of dogs
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As a dog returneth to his vomit,.... Who being sick with what he has eaten, casts it up again, and afterwards returns unto it and licks it up;
[so] a fool returneth to his folly, or "repeats" a it, time after time, many times, as Ben Melech; or a wicked man turns to his wickedness, who, having had some qualms upon his conscience for sin, for a while forsakes it; but that fit being over, and he forgetting all his former horror and uneasiness, returns to his old course of life: a wicked man is here compared to a dog, as he is elsewhere for his impudence and voraciousness in sinning; and the filthiness of sin is expressed by the vomit of a dog, than which nothing is more nauseous and loathsome; and the apostasy of the sinner, from an external course of righteousness into open profaneness is signified by the return of this creature to it. This is said to be a "true proverb", 2 Peter 2:22, where it is quoted and applied.
a ש×× × "qui iterat", Tigurine version, Michaelis; "iterans", Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus; "duplicans", Schultens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 26:11. As a dog returneth to his vomit — 2 Peter 2:22.
