Ro 12, 3

1 C4,7

Ga 6, 3-4

the natural branches: fear, please Me, saith the Lord.
lest perhaps He also spare Praise not a man for his Eci 11,2-3
not thee.
beauty, neither despise a
I say, through the grace man for his look. The bee
that is given me, to all that is small among flying things,
are among you, not to be but her fruit hath the chief-
more wise than it behoveth est sweetness.

to be wise, but to be wise Glory not in apparel at Eci11,4-6
unto sobriety, and according any time, and be not exalted
as God hath divided to every in the day of thy honour :
one the measure of faith. for the works of the Highest
Who distinguisheth thee? only are wonderful, and His
Or what hast thou that thou works are glorious, and secret,
hast not received? And if and hidden.-Many tyrants
thou hast received: why have sat on the throne, and
dost thou glory, as if thou he whom no man could think
hadst not received it?
on, hath worn the crown.-

If any man thinketh him- Many mighty men have been
self to be something, whereas greatly brought down, and
he is nothing, he deceiveth the glorious have been de-
himself. But let every one livered into the hand of
prove his own work, and so others.
he shall have glory in himself
only, and not in another.

Shall the axe boast itself a 10, 15 against him that cutteth with

Je 9, 23-24 Let not the wise man glory it? or shall the saw exalt in his wisdom, and let not itself against him by whom it the strong man glory in his is drawn? as if a rod should strength, and let not the rich lift itself up against him that man glory in his riches: but lifteth it up, and a staff let him that glorieth glory exalt itself, which is but in this, that he understandeth wood ?

Am 6, 1

Ts 28, 1-4

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and knoweth Me.-For I am Why is earth and ashes Eci 10, 9,
the Lord that exercise mercy, proud ?-When a man shall
and judgment, and justice in die, he shall inherit serpents,
the earth for these things and beasts, and worms.

28.

PRIDE INJURIOUS BOTH TO SOUL AND BODY. Wo to you that are fat valley, staggering with wealthy in Sion, and to wine.-Behold, the Lord is you that have confidence in mighty and strong, as a the mountain of Samaria: storm of hail a destroying ye great men, heads of the whirlwind, as the violence people, that go in with state of many waters overflowing, into the House of Israel. and sent forth upon a spa

Wo to the crown of pride, cious land. The crown of to the drunkards of Eph- pride of the drunkards of raim, and to the fading flower, Ephraim shall be trodden the glory of his joy, who under feet.-And the fading were on the head of the flower of the glory of his

Po 16, 5

Eci 3, 30

Eci 6, 2-3

Is 5, 21

Is 47, 10

Ro 1, 21

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Ez 28, 17

joy, who is on the head of in your own conceits.

the fat valley, shall be as a The Lord hath sworn by Am 6, 8-9
hasty fruit before the ripe- His own Soul, saith the Lord
ness of autumn; which when the God of Hosts: I detest
he that seeth it shall behold, the pride of Jacob, and I
as soon as he taketh it in hate his houses, and I will
his hand, he will eat it up. deliver up the city, with the
Every proud man is an inhabitants thereof.-And if
abomination to the Lord: there remain ten men in one
though hand should be house, they also shall die.
joined to hand, he is not Thy heart is lifted up with Ez 28,5-8
innocent.
thy strength. Therefore,
The congregation of the thus saith the Lord God:
proud shall not be healed: Because thy heart is lifted
for the plant of wickedness up as the Heart of God:-
shall take root in them, and Therefore, behold, I will
it shall not be perceived. bring upon thee strangers,
Extol not thyself in the the strongest of the nations:
thoughts of thy soul like a and they shall draw their
bull lest thy strength be swords against the beauty of
quashed by folly, And it thy wisdom, and they shall
eat up thy leaves, and de-defile thy beauty. They
stroy thy fruit, and thou be shall kill thee, and bring
left as a dry tree in the thee down and thou shalt
wilderness.
die the death of them that
Wo to you that are wise in are slain in the heart of the
your own eyes, and prudent'sea.

29.-EFFECTS OF PRIDE IN THE UNDERSTANDING

AND WILL.

Thou hast said: There is the ground: I have set thee none that seeth me. Thy before the face of kings, that wisdom, and thy knowledge, they might behold thee.

this hath deceived thee. For judgment I am come Jn 9, 39
And thou hast said in thy into this world; that they

heart: I am, and besides me who see not, may see
there is no other.

and

they who see, may become

When they knew God, blind.

they have not glorified Him Hast thou seen a man wise Pv 26, 12
as God, or given thanks: but in his own conceit ? there
became vain in their thoughts, shall be more hope of a fool
and their foolish heart was than of him.

darkened. For professing How can you believe, who Jn 5, 44
themselves to be wise, they receive
one from
became fools.

glory
another; and the glory
Thy heart was lifted up which is from God alone
with thy beauty: thou hast you do not seek?

lost thy wisdom in thy Many of the chief men Jn 12, 42
beauty, I have cast thee to also believed in Him: but

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because of the Pharisees they Where pride is, there also P 11, 2
did not confess Him, that shall be reproach: but
they might not be cast out of where humility is, there also

the synagogue.

is wisdom.

Eci 10, 14- The beginning of the pride Among the proud there Pv 13, 10 of man, is to fall off from are always contentions: but God because his heart is they that do all things with departed from Him that counsel, are ruled by wisdom. made him :-For pride is the Haughtiness of the eyes is Pv 21, 4 beginning of all sin: he that the enlarging of the heart: holdeth it shall be filled with the lamp of the wicked is sin. maledictions, and it shall He is proud knowing 1 Ti 6, 4 ruin him in the end. nothing.

30.-EFFECTS OF PRIDE AS TO REPUTATION,

HONOUR, AND DIGNITY.

Is 2, 11-12 The lofty eyes of man are be cut down, and the lofty
humbled, and the haughti- shall be humbled.-And the
ness of men shall be made to thickets of the forest shall
stoop and the Lord alone be cut down with iron, and
shall be exalted in that day. Libanus with its high ones
-Because the day of the shall fall.

Lord of Hosts shall be upon The Lord of Hosts hath Is 23, 9
every one that is proud and designed it to pull down the
high-minded, and upon every pride of all glory, and bring

one that is arrogant, and he to disgrace all the glorious

shall be humbled.

ones of the earth.

Is 3, 16-17 The Lord said: Because He shall bring down them Is 26, 5 the daughters of Sion are that dwell on high, the high haughty, and have walked city he shall lay low.

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with stretched-out necks, and Thus saith the Lord God: Ez 31, 10wanton glances of their eyes, Because he was exalted in and made a noise as they height, and shot up his top walked with their feet, and green and thick, and his moved in a set pace :-The heart was lifted up in his Lord will make bald the height : - I have delivered crown of the head of the him into the hands of the daughters of Sion, and the Mighty One of the nations. Lord will discover their hair. He shall deal with him: I Is 3, 25-26 Thy fairest men also shall have cast him out according fall by the sword, and thy to his wickedness.

valiant ones in battle.-And Scatter the proud in Thy Jb 40, 6-8
her gates shall lament and indignation, and behold every
mourn, and she shall sit de- arrogant man, and humble
solate on the ground.
him.-Look on all that are

Behold the Sovereign Lord proud, and confound them,
of Hosts shall break the and crush the wicked in their
earthen vessel with terror, place.-Hide them in the
and the tall of stature shall dust together, and plunge

JJ 24, 24

their faces into the pit.

dwellest in the clefts of They are lifted up for a the rocks, and settest up thy little while, and shall not throne on high: who sayest stand, and shall be brought in thy heart: Who shall down as all things, and bring me down to the ground? shall be taken away, and Though thou be exalted as an as the tops of the ears of eagle, and though thou set corn they shall be broken. thy nest among the stars : Eci 10, 21 God hath abolished the thence will I bring thee memory of the proud, and down, saith the Lord. hath preserved the memory The proud and the arro- Pv 21, 24 of them that are humble in gant is called ignorant, who mind. in anger worketh pride.

Lu 1, 52

Ab 4, 5

Is 10, 1213, 16

13 13, 19

Jell, 1516

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He hath put down the Whosoever shall exalt him- Mt 23, 12 mighty from their seat, and self, shall be humbled and hath exalted the humble. he that shall humble himself, The pride of thy heart shall be exalted. hath lifted thee up, who The proud one shall fall.

31.-EFFECTS OF PRIDE ON PROSPERITY AND
OFFSPRING.

Lord

I will visit the fruit of the much wickedness in My
proud heart of the king of House? Shall the Holy
Assyria, and the glory of the Flesh take away from thee
haughtiness of his eyes.-For thy crimes, in which thou
he hath said: By the strength hast boasted ?-The
of my own hand I have done called thy name, a plentiful
it, and by my own wisdom I olive-tree, fair, fruitful, and
have understood: and I have beautiful: at the noise of a
removed the bounds of the word, a great fire was kin-
people, and have taken the dled in it, and the branches
spoils of their princes, and as thereof are burnt.

Je 50, 32

a mighty man have pulled The Lord will destroy the Pv 15, 25
down them that sat on high. house of the pro d: and will
-Therefore the Sovereign strengthen the borders of the
Lord the Lord of Hosts shall widow.

send leanness among His fat As for Ephraim, their Os 9, 11-
ones and under His glory glory hath flown away like 12,14
shall be kindled a burning as a bird from the birth, and
it were the burning of a fire. from the womb, and from
That Babylon, glorious the conception. And though
among the kingdoms, the they should bring up their
famous pride of the Chal- children, I will make them
deans, shall be even as the without children among men :
Lord destroyed Sodom and yea, and wo to them, when I
Gomorrha.
shall depart from them.-
What is the meaning that Give them, O Lord. What
My beloved hath wrought wilt Thou give them ? Give

Is 47, 89

Ge 3, 5

Ex 5, 2

2 M 5, 21

them a womb without chil- shall not sit as a widow,
dren, and dry breasts.
and I shall not know barren-
Hear these things, thou ness. These two things shall
that art delicate, and dwell- come upon thee suddenly in
est confidently, that sayest in one day, barrenness and
thy heart I am, and there widowhood.

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is none else besides me: I God resisteth the proud.

32.-EXAMPLES OF THE PUNISHMENT OF Pride.

Ja4, A

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The serpent said to the and to his city; and putting woman: God doth know that his house in order, hanged in what day soever you shall himself and was buried in eat thereof [the tree of the sepulchre of his father. knowledge], your eyes shall He did not render again 2 P32, 25be opened, and you shall be according to the benefits as gods, knowing good and which he had received, for evil. his heart was lifted up, and Pharao answered: Who wrath was enkindled against is the Lord, that I should him, and against Juda and hear His voice, and let Israel Jerusalem.-And he humgo? I know not the Lord, bled himself afterwards, neither will I let Israel go. because his heart had been When Antiochus had taken lifted up, both he and the away out of the Temple a inhabitants of Jerusalem : thousand and eight hundred and therefore the wrath of talents, he went back in all the Lord came not upon haste to Antioch, thinking, them in the days of

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through pride, that he might Ezechias. now make the land naviga- Upon a day appointed, Ac 12, 21ble, and the sea passable Herod, being arrayed in on foot: such was the kingly apparel, sat in the haughtiness of his mind. judgment seat, and made an Ge 11, 3-4 Each one said to his neigh- oration to them.-And the bour: Come, let us make people made acclamation, brick, and bake them with saying: It is the voice of a fire. And they had brick god, and not of a man.instead of stones, and slime And forthwith an Angel of instead of mortar.-And they the Lord struck him, because said: Come, let us make a he had not given the honour city, and a tower, the top to God; and being eaten up whereof may reach to by worms, he gave up the Heaven and let us make our ghost. name famous before we bel scattered abroad into all lands.

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2 K 17, 23 Achitophel, seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose, and went home to his house,

Examples of Pride :

(1) Herod.

Ac 12, 21

(2) Pharisees.

Lu 18, 11