Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Much-Quoted Sentence. [ARTICLE]

Much-Quoted Sentence.

In Proverbs 13:24, is the expression, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he that ioveth him chastiseth him betimes.” Later writers have given the expression other forms, either misquoting it or trying to improve it. Ralph Venning an English nonconformist preacher of the seventeenth century (1621-1674), and author of several religious works quoted It: “They spare the rod and spoil the child.” Samuel Butler about the same time (1612-1680), quoted it “spare the rod and spoil the child.” Butler was a famous coiner of phrases and probably was the first to give the Biblical expression that particular form.