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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self. Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, on the speck called earth, standing in front of a mirror trying to find significance in his own self-image? It is a great sadness that this is the gospel of the modern world. The Christian Gospel is about 'the glory of Christ,' not about me. And when it is—in some measure—about me, it is not about my being made much of by God, but about God mercifully enabling me to enjoy making much of Him forever.
John Piper

Pride is the presumption that we can be happy without depending on God as the source of our happiness and without caring if others find their happiness in God. Pride is the passion to be happy contaminated and corrupted by two things: 1) the unwillingness to see God as the only fountain of true and lasting joy, and 2) the unwillingness to see other people as designed by God to receive our joy in Him. If you take the desire to be happy and strip away from it God as the fountain of your happiness, and people as the recipients of your happiness, what you have left is pride. Pride is the pursuit of happiness anywhere but in the glory of God and the good of other people.
John Piper

Latin Vulgate Proverbs Chapter 17:1-28.

Index: Latin Vulgate

 

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17:1 melior est buccella sicca cum gaudio quam domus plena victimis cum iurgio

17:2 servus sapiens dominabitur filiis stultis et inter fratres hereditatem dividet

17:3 sicut igne probatur argentum et aurum camino ita corda probat Dominus

17:4 malus oboedit linguae iniquae et fallax obtemperat labiis mendacibus

17:5 qui despicit pauperem exprobrat factori eius et qui in ruina laetatur alterius non erit inpunitus

17:6 corona senum filii filiorum et gloria filiorum patres sui

17:7 non decent stultum verba conposita nec principem labium mentiens

17:8 gemma gratissima expectatio praestolantis quocumque se verterit prudenter intellegit

17:9 qui celat delictum quaerit amicitias qui altero sermone repetit separat foederatos

17:10 plus proficit correptio apud prudentem quam centum plagae apud stultum

17:11 semper iurgia quaerit malus angelus autem crudelis mittetur contra eum

17:12 expedit magis ursae occurrere raptis fetibus quam fatuo confidenti sibi in stultitia sua

17:13 qui reddit mala pro bonis non recedet malum de domo eius

17:14 qui dimittit aquam caput est iurgiorum et antequam patiatur contumeliam iudicium deserit

17:15 et qui iustificat impium et qui condemnat iustum abominabilis est uterque apud Dominum

17:16 quid prodest habere divitias stultum cum sapientiam emere non possit

17:17 omni tempore diligit qui amicus est et frater in angustiis conprobatur

17:18 homo stultus plaudet manibus cum spoponderit pro amico suo

17:19 qui meditatur discordiam diligit rixas et qui exaltat ostium quaerit ruinam

17:20 qui perversi cordis est non inveniet bonum et qui vertit linguam incidet in malum

17:21 natus est stultus in ignominiam suam sed nec pater in fatuo laetabitur

17:22 animus gaudens aetatem floridam facit spiritus tristis exsiccat ossa

17:23 munera de sinu impius accipit ut pervertat semitas iudicii

17:24 in facie prudentis lucet sapientia oculi stultorum in finibus terrae

17:25 ira patris filius stultus et dolor matris quae genuit eum

17:26 non est bonum damnum inferre iusto nec percutere principem qui recta iudicat

17:27 qui moderatur sermones suos doctus et prudens est et pretiosi spiritus vir eruditus

17:28 stultus quoque si tacuerit sapiens putabitur et si conpresserit labia sua intellegens