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

Christian Hedonism is a philosophy of life built on the following five convictions: 1. The longing to be happy is a universal human experience, and it is good, not sinful. 2. We should never try to deny or resist our longings to be happy, as though it were a bad impulse. Instead we should seek to intensify this longing and nourish it with whatever will provide the deepest and most enduring satisfaction. 3. The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God. 4. The happiness we find in God reaches its consummation when it is shared with others in the manifold ways of love. 5. To the extent we try to abandon the pursuit of our own pleasure, we fail to honor God and love people. Or, to put it positively: the pursuit of pleasure is a necessary part of all worship and virtue. That is, the chief end of man is to glorify God BY enjoying Him forever.
John Piper

How is the will of God done in heaven? Sadly? Burdensomely? Begrudgingly? No! It is done gladly! If I then pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” how can I not be motivated by a desire to be glad? It is a contradiction to pray for the will of God to be done in my life the way it is done in heaven, and then to say I am indifferent to whether I am glad or not. When the earth rejoices to do His will and does it perfectly, His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.
John Piper

Latin Vulgate Proverbs Chapter 19:1-29.

Index: Latin Vulgate

 

Proverbs 19

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19:1 melior est pauper qui ambulat in simplicitate sua quam torquens labia insipiens

19:2 ubi non est scientia animae non est bonum et qui festinus est pedibus offendit

19:3 stultitia hominis subplantat gressus eius et contra Deum fervet animo suo

19:4 divitiae addunt amicos plurimos a paupere autem et hii quos habuit separantur

19:5 testis falsus non erit inpunitus et qui mendacia loquitur non effugiet

19:6 multi colunt personam potentis et amici sunt dona tribuenti

19:7 fratres hominis pauperis oderunt eum insuper et amici procul recesserunt ab eo qui tantum verba sectatur nihil habebit

19:8 qui autem possessor est mentis diligit animam suam et custos prudentiae inveniet bona

19:9 testis falsus non erit inpunitus et qui loquitur mendacia peribit

19:10 non decent stultum deliciae nec servum dominari principibus

19:11 doctrina viri per patientiam noscitur et gloria eius est iniqua praetergredi

19:12 sicut fremitus leonis ita et regis ira et sicut ros super herbam ita hilaritas eius

19:13 dolor patris filius stultus et tecta iugiter perstillantia litigiosa mulier

19:14 domus et divitiae dantur a patribus a Domino autem proprie uxor prudens

19:15 pigredo inmittit soporem et anima dissoluta esuriet

19:16 qui custodit mandatum custodit animam suam qui autem neglegit vias suas mortificabitur

19:17 feneratur Domino qui miseretur pauperis et vicissitudinem suam reddet ei

19:18 erudi filium tuum ne desperes ad interfectionem autem eius ne ponas animam tuam

19:19 qui inpatiens est sustinebit damnum et cum rapuerit aliud adponet

19:20 audi consilium et suscipe disciplinam ut sis sapiens in novissimis tuis

19:21 multae cogitationes in corde viri voluntas autem Domini permanebit

19:22 homo indigens misericors est et melior pauper quam vir mendax

19:23 timor Domini ad vitam et in plenitudine commorabitur absque visitatione pessimi

19:24 abscondit piger manum suam sub ascella nec ad os suum adplicat eam

19:25 pestilente flagellato stultus sapientior erit sin autem corripueris sapientem intelleget disciplinam

19:26 qui adfligit patrem et fugat matrem ignominiosus est et infelix

19:27 non cesses fili audire doctrinam nec ignores sermones scientiae

19:28 testis iniquus deridet iudicium et os impiorum devorat iniquitatem

19:29 parata sunt derisoribus iudicia et mallei percutientes stultorum corporibus