The Book of Symbols Psalm 12:3-4 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:… The philosopher Bion, being asked what animal he thought the most hurtful, replied, "That of wild creatures a tyrant, and of tame ones a flatterer." The flatterer is the most dangerous enemy we can have. Raleigh, himself a courtier, and therefore initiated into the whole art of flattery, who discovered in his own career and fate its dangerous and deceptive power, its deep artifice and deeper falsehood, says, "A flatterer is said to be a beast that biteth smiling. But it is hard to know them from friends — they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend." (The Book of Symbols.) Parallel Verses KJV: The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:WEB: May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, |
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