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Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Governments. And be fit to govern others, (Worthington) as well as himself. (Calmet)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
There are indeed many who know how so to control their outward advancement as by no means to fall inwardly thereby. Whence it is written, “God casts not away the mighty, seeing that he also himself is mighty.” And it is said through Solomon, “A man of understanding shall possess governments.” But to me these things are difficult, since they are also exceedingly burdensome, and what the mind has not received willingly it does not control fitly. Lo, our most serene lord the emperor had ordered an ape to be made a lion. And, indeed, in virtue of this order it can be called a lion, but a lion it cannot be made. Wherefore his piety must … himself take the blame of all my faults and shortcomings, having committed a ministry of power to a weak agent.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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