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Sprueche 18:19

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19 Ein Bruder, an dem man treulos gehandelt hat, widersteht mehr als eine feste Stadt; und Zwistigkeiten sind wie der Riegel einer Burg.

Sprueche 18:19 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 18:19

A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city,
&c.] A fortified city may sooner be taken by an enemy, than one brother offended can be reconciled to another; their resentments against each other are keener than against another person that has offended them; and their love being turned into hatred, it is more bitter; and it is more difficult to compose differences between brethren than between enemies; wherefore such should take care that they fall not out by the way: this is true of brethren in a natural sense; as the cases of Abel and Cain, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brethren, Amnon and Absalom, and others, show; and of brethren in a spiritual sense, as Paul and Barnabas, Luther and Calvin, and others; and [their] contentions [are] like the bars of a castle:
which cannot be easily broken or cut asunder: so contentions, especially those among brethren, are with great difficulty made to cease, and their differences composed; they will stand it out against one another as long as a strong city, or a barred castle, against an enemy.

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Sprueche 18:19 In-Context

17 Der erste in seiner Streitsache hat recht; doch sein Nächster kommt und forscht ihn aus.
18 Das Los schlichtet Zwistigkeiten und bringt Mächtige auseinander.
19 Ein Bruder, an dem man treulos gehandelt hat, widersteht mehr als eine feste Stadt; und Zwistigkeiten sind wie der Riegel einer Burg.
20 Von der Frucht des Mundes eines Mannes wird sein Inneres gesättigt, vom Ertrage seiner Lippen wird er gesättigt.
21 Tod und Leben sind in der Gewalt der Zunge, und wer sie liebt, wird ihre Frucht essen.
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