The soldiers that spat upon Him, and mocked Him, met not with a reproachful expression from Him. He held His peace at their clamors, offered His back to their scourges, reviled them not when He lay under the greatest violence of their rage, was patient under His sufferings, while He was despised more than any man by the people. His calmness was more stupendous than their rage, and the angels could not but more inexpressibly wonder at the patience of the sufferer, than the unmercifulness of the executioners; He was more willing to die, than they were to put Him to death; He suffered not by force, He courted the effusion of His blood, when He knew that the hour which His Father had appointed, and man needed, was approaching. Neither the infamy of the cross, nor the sharpness of the punishment, nor the present and foreseen ingratitude of his enemies, could deter Him from desiring and effecting man's salvation. He went to it, not only as a duty, but an honor; and was content for a while to be the sport of devils, that He might be the spring of salvation to men.

Stephen Charnock

Post published:December 20, 2022

Index: Latin Vulgate

Proverbs 7

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7:1 fili mi custodi sermones meos et praecepta mea reconde tibi

7:2 serva mandata mea et vives et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui

7:3 liga eam in digitis tuis scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui

7:4 dic sapientiae soror mea es et prudentiam voca amicam tuam

7:5 ut custodiat te a muliere extranea et ab aliena quae verba sua dulcia facit

7:6 de fenestra enim domus meae per cancellos prospexi

7:7 et video parvulos considero vecordem iuvenem

7:8 qui transit in platea iuxta angulum et propter viam domus illius graditur

7:9 in obscuro advesperascente die in noctis tenebris et caligine

7:10 et ecce mulier occurrit illi ornatu meretricio praeparata ad capiendas animas garrula et vaga

7:11 quietis inpatiens nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis

7:12 nunc foris nunc in plateis nunc iuxta angulos insidians

7:13 adprehensumque deosculatur iuvenem et procaci vultu blanditur dicens

7:14 victimas pro salute debui hodie reddidi vota mea

7:15 idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum desiderans te videre et repperi

7:16 intexui funibus lectum meum stravi tapetibus pictis ex Aegypto

7:17 aspersi cubile meum murra et aloe et cinnamomo

7:18 veni inebriemur uberibus donec inlucescat dies et fruamur cupitis amplexibus

7:19 non est enim vir in domo sua abiit via longissima

7:20 sacculum pecuniae secum tulit in die plenae lunae reversurus est domum suam

7:21 inretivit eum multis sermonibus et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum

7:22 statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam et quasi agnus lasciviens et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur

7:23 donec transfigat sagitta iecur eius velut si avis festinet ad laqueum et nescit quia de periculo animae illius agitur

7:24 nunc ergo fili audi me et adtende verba oris mei

7:25 ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua neque decipiaris semitis eius

7:26 multos enim vulneratos deiecit et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea

7:27 viae inferi domus eius penetrantes interiora mortis

Index: Latin Vulgate

Proverbs 7

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