Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Proverbs 9:11
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 273, footnote 3 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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The divine Instructor enjoins us not to approach to another’s river, meaning by the figurative expression “another’s river,” “another’s wife;” the wanton that flows to all, and out of licentiousness gives herself up to meretricious enjoyment with all. “Abstain from water that is another’s,” He says, “and drink not of another’s well,” admonishing us to shun the stream of “voluptuousness,” that we may live long, and that years of life may be added to us;[Proverbs 9:11] both by not hunting after pleasure that belongs to another, and by diverting our inclinations.