Proverbs 10:17

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus VI.7Book VI

  “…that the word of God also encourages us to the practice of dialectics: Solomon, e.g., declaring in one passage, that “instruction unquestioned goes astray;” and Jesus the son of Sirach, who has left us the treatise called “Wisdom,” declaring in another, that “the knowledge of the unwise is as words that will not…” — editor's note: παιδεία ἀνεξέλεγκτος πλανᾶται: cf. Prov. x. 17 (Sept.).

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 37

  ““He that hath pity on the poor, lendeth unto the Lord.”” — editor's note: Prov. x. 17.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6Book I

  ““For hatred,” says Solomon, “raises strife, but instruction guardeth the ways of life;” in such a way that we are not deceived nor deluded by those who are practiced in base arts for the injury of those who hear.” — editor's note: Prov. x. 12, 17.

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• Sirach 21:18

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.7.

• Matthew 6:6

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6.

• John 4:23

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6.

• Hebrews 5:14

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6.

• Proverbs 6:6

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6.

• Proverbs 6:8

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6.