“Sicut canis qui revertitur ad vomitum suum, sic imprudens qui iterat stultitiam suam.”
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. returneth to his folly: Heb. iterateth his folly”
“As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”
“As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.”
“As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So is a fool that repeateth his folly.”
Dog. This is the only animal which is known to do so. St. Peter uses this comparison to deter any from renouncing the faith; as the Fathers do, to shew the misery attending a relapse. Septuagint here add, “there is a confusion,” &c., taken from Ecclesiasticus iv. 25. (Calmet)
10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.