Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 21:9

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 395, footnote 6 (Image)

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

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (HTML)

Book I. Concerning the Laity (HTML)

Sec. III.—Commandments to Women. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2579 (In-Text, Margin)

... restraint the souls of the foolish. Let us learn, therefore, how the divine word triumphs over such women, saying: “I hated a woman who is a snare and net to the heart of men worse than death; her hands are fetters.” And in another passage: “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is beauty in a wicked woman.” And again: “As a worm in wood, so does a wicked woman destroy her husband.” And again: “It is better to dwell in the corner of the house-top, than with a contentious and an angry woman.”[Proverbs 21:9] You, therefore, who are Christian women, do not imitate such as these. But thou who designest to be faithful to thine own husband, take care to please him alone. And when thou art in the streets, cover thy head; for by such a covering thou wilt ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 367, footnote 7 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

Treatises. (HTML)

Against Jovinianus. (HTML)

Book I (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4440 (In-Text, Margin)

... in wood, so a wicked woman destroyeth her husband.” But if you assert that this was spoken of bad wives, I shall briefly answer: What necessity rests upon me to run the risk of the wife I marry proving good or bad? “It is better,” he says, “to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and passionate woman in a wide house.” How seldom we find a wife without these faults, he knows who is married. Hence that sublime orator, Varius Geminus says well “The man who does not quarrel is a bachelor.”[Proverbs 21:9] “It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a house in common.” If a house common to husband and wife makes a wife proud and breeds contempt for the husband: how much more if the wife be the richer of the ...