Christian Weekly Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. Tirmond, one of the Czar's ablest surgeons, and to whom he was much attached, having died, his widow married a young barber from Dantzic, who was somewhat more expert in gallantry than in surgery; as he became very wealthy by this marriage, he made a great figure at Moscow. Being one day sent for by the Czar, he went to court in a magnificent dress, and in one of his elegant carriages. Peter examined him, and roughly told him he was a blockhead, and immediately sailed in a troop of valets and peasants, whom he ordered him instantly to shave. The gentleman barber was under the necessity of obeying, to the great amusement of the whole court, and with the same parade in which he had arrived, he was then permitted to return. (Christian Weekly.) Parallel Verses KJV: When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.WEB: When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom. |
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