Proverbs 5:20
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quare seduceris, fili mi, ab aliena, et foveris in sinu alterius ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ πολὺς ἴσθι πρὸς ἀλλοτρίαν, μηδὲ συνέρχου ἀγκάλαις τῆς μὴ ἰδίας·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלָ֤מָּה תִשְׁגֶּ֣ה בְנִ֣י בְזָרָ֑ה וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗ק חֵ֣ק נָכְרִיָּֽה
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter V. Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen her chickens!” And Jerusalem is, when interpreted, “a vision of peace.” He therefore shows prophetically, that those who peacefully contemplate sacred things are in manifold ways trained to their calling. What then? He “would,” and could not. How often, and where? Twice; by the prophets, and by the advent. The expression, then, “How often,” shows wisdom to be manifold; every mode of quantity and quality, it by all means saves some, both in time and in eternity. “For the Spirit of the Lord fills the earth.” And if any should violently say that the reference is to the Hellenic culture, when it is said, “Give not heed to an evil woman; for honey drops from the lips of a harlot,” let him hear what follows: “who lubricates thy throat for the time.” But philosophy does not flatter. …