Proverbs 9:14
Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sedit in foribus domus suæ, super sellam in excelso urbis loco,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐκάθισεν ἐπὶ θύραις τοῦ ἑαυτῆς οἴκου ἐπὶ δίφρου, ἐμφανῶς ἐν πλατείαις
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְֽ֭יָשְׁבָה לְפֶ֣תַח בֵּיתָ֑הּ עַל כִּ֝סֵּ֗א מְרֹ֣מֵי קָֽרֶת
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chapter XI. A Compendious View of the Christian Life
Some of these women eating mastich, going about, show their teeth to those that come near. And others, as if they had not fingers, give themselves airs, scratching their heads with pins; and these made either of tortoise or ivory, or some other dead creature they procure at much pains. And others, as if they had certain efflorescences, in order to appear comely in the eyes of spectators, stain their faces by adorning them with gay-coloured unguents. Such a one is called by Solomon “a foolish and bold woman,” who “knows not shame. …
St Augustine Book III, Chapter VI
11. Where, then, wert Thou then to me, and how far from me? Far, indeed, was I wandering away from Thee, being even shut out from the very husks of the swine, whom with husks I fed. For how much better, then, are the fables of the grammarians and poets than these snares! For verses, and poems, and Medea flying, are more profitable truly than these men’s five elements, variously painted, to answer to the five caves of darkness, none of which exist, and which slay the believer. For verses and poems I can turn into true food, but the “Medea flying,” though I sang, I maintained it not; though I heard it sung, I believed it not; but those things I did believe. …