The simplest and most old sapiential literature is the masal ( provervio ) It is, more precisely, one makes surprising that captivates attention, a popular saying or a maximum. The only proverbs qntíguas collections contain short sentences. Then the mass develops, becomes parable or allegory, discourse, or reasoning. Taken from the 1976 Jerusalem Bible.
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