Licentiousness
- "They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogenous, incoherent, distracted mass. I may appeal to experience, during the present contest, for a verification of these conjectures. But, if they be not certain in event, are they not possible, are they not probable ? Is it not safer to wait with patience twenty-seven years and three months longer, for the attainment of any degree of population desired or expected? May not our government be more homogeneous, more peaceable, more durable?" THE HEAVENLY RACE[edit]by William Penn of Pennsylvania.
- "Our ancestors before us have lamented, and our children after us will lament, as we do, the ruin of morality, the prevalence of vice, and the gradual deterioration of mankind; yet these things are really stationary, only moved slightly to and fro like the waves which at one time a rising tide washes further over the land, and at another an ebbing one restrains within a lower water mark. At one time the chief vice will be adultery, and licentiousness will exceed all bounds; at another time a rage for feasting will be in vogue, and men will waste their inheritance in the most shameful of all ways, by the kitchen; at another, excessive care for the body, and a devotion to personal beauty which implies ugliness of mind; at another time, injudiciously granted liberty will show itself in wanton recklessness and defiance of authority; sometimes there will be a reign of cruelty both in public and private, and the madness of the civil wars will come upon us, which destroy all that is holy and inviolable. Sometimes even drunkenness will be held in honor, and it will be a virtue to swallow most wine. Vices do not lie in wait for us in one place alone, but hover around us in changeful forms, sometimes even at variance one with another, so that in turn they win and lose the field; yet we shall always be obliged to pronounce the same verdict upon ourselves, that we are and always were evil, and, I unwillingly add, that we always shall be. There always will be homicides, tyrants, thieves, adulterers, ravishers, sacrilegious, traitors: worse than all these is the ungrateful man, except we consider that all these crimes flow from ingratitude, without which hardly any great wickedness has ever grown to full stature. Be sure that you guard against this as the greatest of crimes in yourself, but pardon it as the least of crimes in another. For all the injury which you suffer is this: you have lost the subject-matter of a benefit, not the benefit itself, for you possess unimpaired the best part of it, in that you have given it. Though we ought to be careful to bestow our benefits by preference upon those who are likely to show us gratitude for them, yet we must sometimes do what we have little hope will turn out well, and bestow benefits upon those who we not only think will prove ungrateful, but who we know have been so. For instance, if I should be able to save a man’s children from a great danger with no risk to myself, I should not hesitate to do so. If a man be worthy I would defend him even with my blood, and would share his perils; if he be unworthy, and yet by merely crying for help I can rescue him from robbers, I would without reluctance raise the shout which would save a fellow-creature." Seneca ON BENEFITS, DEDICATED TO AEBUTIUS LIBERALIS. BOOK I. Riots X.
= Folly
One word meaning licentiousnes we see translated in the Old Testament as folly and foolishness is ‘ivveleth[1] composed of the Hebrew letters AlefVavLamedTav and appears 25 ties int the Old Testament.[2]
It is from the word ‘eviyl[3] which sounds a lot lie evil and is composed of the Hebrew letters AlefVavYodLamed. It appears some 26 times in the Old Testament.[4]
- ↑ 0200 ^תלוא^ ‘ivveleth \@iv-veh’- leth\@ from the same as 0191; n f; AV-folly 13, foolishness 10, foolish 1, foolishly 1; 25 1) foolishness, folly
- ↑ : Psalms 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness <0200>.
- Psalms 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness <0200>; and my sins are not hid from thee.
- Proverbs 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly <0200> he shall go astray.
- Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness <0200>.
- Proverbs 13:16 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly <0200>.
- Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish <0200> plucketh it down with her hands.
- Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly <0200> of fools is deceit.
- Proverbs 14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly <0200>: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
- Proverbs 14:18 The simple inherit folly <0200>: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness <0200> of fools is folly <0200>.
- Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly <0200>.
- Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness <0200>.
- Proverbs 15:21 Folly <0200> is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
- Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly <0200>.
- Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly <0200>.
- Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly <0200> and shame unto him.
- Proverbs 19:3 The foolishness <0200> of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
- Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness <0200> is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
- Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness <0200> is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
- Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly <0200>, lest thou also be like unto him.
- Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly <0200>, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
- Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness <0200> depart from him.
- ↑ 0191 ^ליוא^ ‘eviyl \@ev-eel’\@ from an unused root (meaning to be perverse); adj m AV-fool(s) 20, foolish (man) 6; 26
- 1) be foolish, foolish
- 1a) (subst)
- 1a1) of one who despises wisdom
- 1a2) of one who mocks when guilty
- 1a3) of one who is quarrelsome
- 1a4) of one who is licentious
- 1a) (subst)
- 1) be foolish, foolish
- ↑ : Job 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man <0191>, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish <0191> taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Psalms 107:17 Fools <0191> because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools <0191> despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool <0191> to the correction of the stocks;
- Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools <0191> die for want of wisdom.
- Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool <0191> shall be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool <0191> is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
- Proverbs 12:16 A fool’s <0191> wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
- Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish <0191> is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
- Proverbs 15:5 A fool <0191> despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools <0191> is folly.
- Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool <0191>, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool <0191> will be meddling.
- Proverbs 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool <0191>: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
- Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s <0191> wrath is heavier than them both.
- Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool <0191> in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish <0191> man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
- Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools <0191>, the counsel of the wise counsellors of : Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Isaiah 35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools <0191>, shall not err therein.
- Jeremiah 4:22 For my people is foolish <0191>, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool <0191>, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.