Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 19:3
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 263, footnote 9 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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... Remember the four and twenty thousand that were rejected for fornication. But the experiences of those who have committed fornication, as I have already said, are types which correct our lusts. Moreover, the Pædagogue warns us most distinctly: “Go not after thy lusts, and abstain from thine appetites; for wine and women will remove the wise; and he that cleaves to harlots will become more daring. Corruption and the worm shall inherit him, and he shall be held up as public example to greater shame.”[Ecclesiasticus 19:2-3] And again—for he wearies not of doing good—“He who averts his eyes from pleasure crowns his life.”