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Proverbs 4:6 (WEB)
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Fathers and councils · 3

Jerome, Letters Letter 52
“She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.”” — editor's note: Prov. iv. 5–9.
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Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.20On Virginity
“I could tell also of the suitor’s gifts to the bride in such a wedding; they are not procured by the money that perishes, but are contributed out of the wealth peculiar to the soul.” — editor's note: τὰ ἕδνα τοῦ γάμου, i.e. given by the bridegroom. The Juris-consults called it Donatio propter nuptias, or simply Donatio. The human soul here espouses Wisdom,…
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Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.23On Virginity
“It is to him that we must go, if we mean, according to the saying of Scripture, to “retain” virginity.” — editor's note: κατὰ τὸν ἐροῦντα λόγον (Codd. Reg. and Mor. αἱροῦντα). This alludes to Prov. iii. 18, rather than Prov. iv. 6.
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