Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 7:27

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 367, footnote 4 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4437 (In-Text, Margin)

... 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: “The foolish and bold woman comes to want bread.” What bread? Surely that bread which cometh down from heaven: and he immediately adds[Proverbs 7:27] “The earth-born perish in her house, rush into the depths of hell.” Who are the earth-born that perish in her house? They of course who follow the first Adam, who is of the earth, and not the second, who is from heaven. And again in another place: ...