Proverbs 22:20 (WEB)
Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.8Conference XIV
“But of spiritual knowledge there are three kinds, tropological, allegorical, anagogical, of which we read as follows in Proverbs: “But do you describe these things to yourself in three ways according to the largeness of your heart.”” — editor's note: The meaning of the four senses of Scripture here spoken of; viz., the historical, tropological, allegorical, and anagogical, is well summed up in these lines:…
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“…things to thyself in a threefold manner, in counsel and knowledge, and that thou mayest answer the words of truth to those who have proposed them to thee.”” — editor's note: Cf. Prov. xxii. 20, 21. The Masoretic text reads, ךךעֲירִוׁהלְ .תעַרָוָ תוֹצע“מֹבְּ (סישִׁלִשָׁ, keri) סוׁשׁלִשָׁ ךךלְ יתִּבְתַכָ אׁלהְ .ךךיחֶלְשֹׁלְ תמֶאֱ…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…never been made to burn, as the Scriptures have been opened to him, with the pure words of God which have been tried in a furnace; who has not, by a triple inscription of them upon the breadth of his heart, attained the mind of Christ; nor been admitted to the treasures which to most men remain hidden, secret, and…” — editor's note: Triple, a quotation from Prov. xxii. 20. The meaning of the Hebrew is doubtful. Clémencet, not noticing this, suggests that the allusion is to the law being…
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Clement of Alexandria
““Write,” it is said, “the commandments doubly, in counsel and knowledge, that thou mayest answer the words of truth to them who send unto thee.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxii. 20, 21. The Septuagint and Hebrew both differ from the reading here.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.9.