Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Proverbs 27:15
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 367, footnote 8 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
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Against Jovinianus. (HTML)
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CCEL Footnote 4441 (In-Text, Margin)
... married. Hence that sublime orator, Varius Geminus says well “The man who does not quarrel is a bachelor.” “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 two, and the husband but a lodger in her house! She begins to be not a wife, but mistress of the house; and if she offend her husband, they must part.[Proverbs 27:15] “A continual dropping on a wintry day” turns a man out of doors, and so will a contentious woman drive a man from his own house. She floods his house with her constant nagging and daily chatter, and ousts him from his own home, that is the Church. ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 361, footnote 3 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X. (HTML)
Conference VI. Conference of Abbot Theodore. On the Death of the Saints. (HTML)
Chapter XVII. That no one is dashed to the ground by a sudden fall. (HTML)
... through, and so the protecting walls are by degrees ruined, and in consequence of long standing neglect the gap becomes larger, and break away, and in time the drenching storm and rain pours in like a river: for “by slothfulness a building is cast down, and through the weakness of hands the house shall drop through.” And that the same thing happens spiritually to the soul the same Solomon thus tells us in other words, when he says: “water dripping drives a man out of the house on a stormy day.”[Proverbs 27:15] Elegantly then does he compare carelessness of mind to a roof, and to tiles that have not been looked after, through which in the first instance only very slight drippings (so to speak) of the passions make their way to the soul: but if these are ...