Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 6:26

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 64, footnote 2 (Image)

Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents

Two Epistles Concerning Virginity. (HTML)

The Second Epistle of the Same Clement. (HTML)

Samson's Admonitory Fall. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 476 (In-Text, Margin)

Hast thou not heard concerning Samson the Nazarite, “with whom was the Spirit of God,” the man of great strength? This man, who was a Nazarite, and consecrated to God, and who was gifted with strength and might, a woman brought to ruin with her wretched body, and with her vile passion. Art thou, perchance, such a man as he? Know thyself, and know the measure of thy strength. “The married woman catcheth precious souls.”[Proverbs 6:26] Therefore, we do not allow any man whatsoever to sit with a married woman; much less to live in the same house with a maiden who has taken the vow, or to sleep where she sleeps, or to be constantly with her. For this is to be hated and abominated by those who fear God.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 25, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Of the Obscenities Practiced in Honor of the Mother of the Gods. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 94 (In-Text, Margin)

... ears and hurrying from the spot, her relatives, her husband, and her children would have blushed for her? Therefore, the mother of the gods being such a character as the most profligate man would be ashamed to have for his mother, and meaning to enthral the minds of the Romans, demanded for her service their best citizen, not to ripen him still more in virtue by her helpful counsel, but to entangle him by her deceit, like her of whom it is written, “The adulteress will hunt for the precious soul.”[Proverbs 6:26] Her intent was to puff up this high- souled man by an apparently divine testimony to his excellence, in order that he might rely upon his own eminence in virtue, and make no further efforts after true piety and religion, without which natural ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 367, footnote 3 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

Treatises. (HTML)

Against Jovinianus. (HTML)

Book I (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4436 (In-Text, Margin)

... opponent adduced Solomon, who, although he had many wives, nevertheless built the temple, I briefly replied that it was my intention to run over the remaining points. Now that he may not cry out that both Solomon and others under the law, prophets and holy men, have been dishonoured by us, let us show what this very man with his many wives and concubines thought of marriage. For no one can know better than he who suffered through them, what a wife or woman is. Well then, he says in the Proverbs:[Proverbs 6:26] “The foolish and bold woman comes to want bread.” What bread? Surely that bread which cometh down from heaven: and he immediately adds “The earth-born perish in her house, rush into the depths of hell.” Who are the earth-born that perish in her ...