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Pro_24:27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
Ver. 27. Prepare thy work without, &c.] God would have all his to be not good men only, but good husbands too; to order their affairs with discretion, and to take their fittest opportunities for despatch of household businesses. Pliny {a} hath a saying to like sense with this: Aedificandum, saith he, consito agro, et tunc quoque cunctanter, - Let building alone till thy field be tilled, vined, planted, &c.
{a} Lib, xviii, cap. 1.