Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 18:22

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 456, footnote 10 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (HTML)

Book VI (HTML)

Sec. III.—The Heresies Attacked by the Apostles (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3233 (In-Text, Margin)

... and the remains of thy spirit. I and no other have made her.” For the Lord says: “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” For the wife is the partner of life, united by God unto one body from two. But he that divides that again into two which is become one, is the enemy of the creation of God, and the adversary of His providence. In like manner, he that retains her that is corrupted is a transgressor of the law of nature; since “he that retains an adulteress is foolish and impious.”[Proverbs 18:22] For says He, “Cut her off from thy flesh;” for she is not an help, but a snare, bending her mind from thee to another. Nor be ye circumcised in your flesh, but let the circumcision which is of the heart by the Spirit suffice for the faithful; for He ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 227, footnote 4 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2639 (In-Text, Margin)

... unlawful to withdraw from wedlock, save on account of fornication, applies, according to the argument, to men and women alike. Custom, however, does not so obtain. Yet, in relation with women, very strict expressions are to be found; as, for instance, the words of the apostle “He which is joined to a harlot is one body” and of Jeremiah, If a wife “become another man’s shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted?” And again, “He that hath an adulteress is a fool and impious.”[Proverbs 18:22] Yet custom ordains that men who commit adultery and are in fornication be retained by their wives. Consequently I do not know if the woman who lives with the man who has been dismissed can properly be called an adulteress; the charge in this case ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 237, footnote 7 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Amphilochius, concerning the Canons. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2701 (In-Text, Margin)

XXI. If a man living with a wife is not satisfied with his marriage and falls into fornication, I account him a fornicator, and prolong his period of punishment. Nevertheless, we have no canon subjecting him to the charge of adultery, if the sin be committed against an unmarried woman. For the adulteress, it is said, “being polluted shall be polluted,” and she shall not return to her husband: and “He that keepeth an adulteress is a fool and impious.”[Proverbs 18:22] He, however, who has committed fornication is not to be cut off from the society of his own wife. So the wife will receive the husband on his return from fornication, but the husband will expel the polluted woman from his house. The argument here is not easy, but the ...