Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 9:7
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 278, footnote 3 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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So, opening the curtain, and looking keenly round on all that direct their eyes towards them, they show their manners; and often bending forth from within, disgrace this superficial propriety by their dangerous restlessness. “Look not round,” it is said, “in the streets of the city, and wander not in its lonely places.”[Ecclesiasticus 9:7] For that is, in truth, a lonely place, though there be a crowd of the licentious in it, where no wise man is present.