Commentary on Proverbs

Macrina the Younger

It is more agreeable to remain silent on such questions and to consider their foolish and irreverent assumptions unworthy of a response, since the divine words forbid it, saying, "Answer not a fool according to his folly." But the fool, according to the prophet, is "the one who says there is no God."

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