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Spreuken 18:19

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19 Een broeder is wederspanniger dan een sterke stad; en de geschillen zijn als een grendel van een paleis.

Spreuken 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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Spreuken 18:19 In-Context

17 Die de eerste is in zijn twistzaak, schijnt rechtvaardig te zijn; maar zijn naaste komt, en hij onderzoekt hem.
18 Het lot doet de geschillen ophouden, en maakt scheiding tussen machtigen.
19 Een broeder is wederspanniger dan een sterke stad; en de geschillen zijn als een grendel van een paleis.
20 Van de vrucht van ieders mond zal zijn buik verzadigd worden; hij zal verzadigd worden van de inkomst zijner lippen.
21 Dood en leven zijn in het geweld der tong; en een ieder, die ze liefheeft, zal haar vrucht eten.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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