Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 20:5
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 251, footnote 8 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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Chapter VI.—On Filthy Speaking. (HTML)
... in reality shameful is wickedness, and what is done through it. In accordance with these remarks, conversation about deeds of wickedness is appropriately termed filthy [shameful] speaking, as talk about adultery and pæderasty and the like. Frivolous prating, too, is to be put to silence. “For,” it is said, “in much speaking thou shalt not escape sin.” “Sins of the tongue, therefore, shall be punished.” “There is he who is silent, and is found wise; and there is he that is hated for much speech.”[Ecclesiasticus 20:5] But still more, the prater makes himself the object of disgust. “For he that multiplieth speech abominates his own soul.”