Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 6

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 170, footnote 5 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

Anatolius and Minor Writers. (HTML)

Malchion. (HTML)

The Epistle Written by Malchion, In Name of the Synod of Antioch, Against Paul of Samosata. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1402 (In-Text, Margin)

... women into their houses, while others have fallen under suspicion. So that, even although one should admit that he has been doing nothing disgraceful in this matter, yet he ought at least to have avoided the suspicion that springs out of such a course of conduct, lest perchance some might be offended, or find inducement to imitate him. For how, then, should any one censure another, or warn him to beware of yielding to greater familiarity with a woman, lest perchance he might slip, as it is written:[Proverbs 6] if, although he has dismissed one, he has still retained two with him, and these in the bloom of their youth, and of fair countenance; and if when he goes away he takes them with him; and all this, too, while he indulges in luxury and surfeiting?