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Fragments of Irenaeus 1-38

Greek original · 1 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

← ch. 1-28ch. 1-40 →
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ℹ️ The Chinese and English alongside are this site's own translation, made directly from the original text on this page (not the CUV or the WEB, which follow the Masoretic Text and a different textual tradition).
1-38:38
Ἄμεινον καὶ συμφορώτερον, ἰδιέτας καὶ ὀλιγομαθεῖς ὑπάρχειν, καὶ διὰ τῆς ἀγάπης πλησίον γενέσθαι τοῦ Θεοῦ, πολυμαθεῖς καὶ ἐμπείρους δοκοῦντας εἶναι, βλασφήμους εἰς τὸν ἑαυτῶν εὑρίσκεσθαι δεσπότην
It is better and more profitable to be unlearned and of little knowledge, yet through love to draw near to God, than to seem to be possessed of much learning and experience, and to be found blasphemers against one’s own Master.
寧可作沒有學問、見識淺薄的人,卻藉著愛親近神,也勝過那看似博學多聞、經驗豐富,卻被發現是褻瀆自己主宰之人。
← ch. 1-28ch. 1-40 →
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