Proverbs 5:15

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus IV.44Book IV

  “Let it belong to you alone, and let no alien partake with thee.”” — editor's note: Cf. Prov. v. 15–17.

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Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 17

  “Let then thus much suffice concerning those outcasts; and now let us return to the divine Scriptures, and let us drink waters out of our own cisterns [that is, the holy Fathers], and out of our own springing wells.” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15.

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John Cassian

• John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.13Conference XIV

  “Let waters from your own fountain flow in abundance for you, but let your waters pass through into your streets.”” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15, 16.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 128

  “No, let him “possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,” let him drink of his own wells not out of the dissolute cisterns of the harlots which cannot hold within them the pure waters of chastity.” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy III.1Book III

  “Solomon his son also said: “Drink water out of thine own vessels, and out of the springs of thy wells; ” that is: use thine own counsel.” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15.

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• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit I.16Book I

  “For Wisdom says: “Drink water out of thine own vessels, and from the founts of thine own wells, and let thy waters flow abroad in thy streets.”” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15, 16.

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Gregory the Great

• Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25Part III

  “Have them to thyself alone, and let not strangers be partakers with thee (Prov. v. 15–17).” — the author cites it

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.1Book I

  “And “drink water from thine own vessels,” Solomon exhorts.” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15.

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Ephrem the Syrian

• Ephrem the Syrian, Three Homilies Homily 2

  “Let thy fountains be for thyself alone, and let not another drink with thee.” — editor's note: Prov. v. 15–17.

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• Proverbs 16:5

  Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25.

• Proverbs 27:7

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.13.

• Ecclesiastes 1:3

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Ecclesiastes 11:10

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Isaiah 30:20

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.13.

• Isaiah 30:21

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.13.

• Isaiah 58:12

  Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIV.13.

• Hosea 2:8

  Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25.

• Amos 1:13

  Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25.

• Matthew 5:39

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Matthew 10:16

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Acts 20:28

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Galatians 4:21

  Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.

• Galatians 4:22

  Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.

• Galatians 4:23

  Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.

• Galatians 4:24

  Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.

• Galatians 6:9

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• 2 Peter 2:22

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Genesis 26:15

  Cited together in Against Celsus IV.44.

• Genesis 31:48

  Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25.

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.

• Psalm 54:3

  Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.25.

• Proverbs 4:23

  Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.