Note 181 — LECTURE V. THE MORALITY OF PROVERBS.

Henry More, On Godliness, b. 8. How remarkable a confirmation of the fact asserted in that proverb and in this passage lies in the twofold uses of the Greek word κακοήθεια; having, for its first meaning, an evil disposition in a man’s self, it has for its second an interpreting on his part for the worst of all the actions of other men.