Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 25:24

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

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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 25:24] “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 ...