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Against Pride »
"Do not resent your neighbor's every
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Against Pride - Ecclesiasticus 10:6-14
Do not resent (1) your neighbor's every offence,
and never act in a fit of passion.
Pride is hateful to God and man,
and injustice is abhorrent to both.
Empire passes from nation to nation
because of injustice, arrogance and money. (2)
What has dust and ashes to pride itself on? Even in life its guts are repellant. A long illness mocks the doctor; a king today is a corpse tomorrow. When a man comes to die, his inheritance will be creeping things, beasts of prey, worms. The beginning of human pride is to desert the Lord, and to turn one's heart away from one's maker.
(1) Hebrew "Do not punish". (2) Greek "because of dominating pride".