Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 31:22

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 287, footnote 3 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

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CCEL Footnote 1691 (In-Text, Margin)

... themselves by their own exertions; not bringing unornamental ornament wrought by others, which is vulgar and meretricious, but that of every good woman, supplied and woven by her own hands whenever she most requires. For it is never suitable for women whose lives are framed according to God, to appear arrayed in things bought from the market, but in their own home-made work. For a most beautiful thing is a thrifty wife, who clothes both herself and her husband with fair array of her own working;[Proverbs 31:22] in which all are glad—the children on account of their mother, the husband on account of his wife, she on their account, and all in God.

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