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Proverbs 6:8 (WEB)
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

Fathers and councils · 9

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 10
“And again, Go to the bee, and learn how industrious she is: how, hovering round all kinds of flowers, she collects her honey for thy benefit: that thou also, by ranging over the Holy Scriptures, mayest lay hold of…” — editor's note: After the description of the ant, Prov. vi. 6–8, there follows in the Septuagint a similar reference to the bee: “Or go to the bee, and learn how industrious…
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Ambrose of Milan, Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.4Book IV
“When they say, “The Son can do nothing of Himself,” they indeed except nothing, so that one blasphemer has even said: “He cannot make even a gnat,” mocking with so headstrong profanity and with insolence so overweening the majesty of Supreme Power; yet perhaps they may think the mystery of Thine Incarnate…” — editor's note: As a matter of fact, gnats and insects generally are far from being the least wonderful of God’s works. In them as much as, if not more than, in anything we…
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 49
“Be therefore prudent, copy the ant, as saith the Scripture: “Store in summer, lest thou hunger in winter;” the winter is the last day, the day of tribulation; the winter is the day of offences and of bitterness: gather…” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 8, xxx. 25.
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Basil the Great, Hexaemeron Homily 8
“The book of Proverbs has given the bee the most honourable and the best praise by calling her wise and industrious.” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 8, lxx. The reference to the bee is not in the Hebrew.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 17
“And to the brutes likewise He sends us oftentimes, saying on this wise, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and emulate her ways:” and “go forth to the bee.”” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 6–8, LXX. “Or go to the bee, and learn how industrious she is, and how honorable she maketh her work; whose labors kings and private men make use of…
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 21
“Yea, for the old covenant likewise sends to the bee, and to the ant,and to the turtle, and to the swallow.” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 6–8, LXX. See before, Hom. XVII., 6, note.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 125
“Construct also hives for bees, for to these the proverbs of Solomon send you, and you may learn from the tiny creatures how to order a monastery and to discipline a kingdom.” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 8, LXX.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.6Book I
“Wherefore it is said, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and become wiser than it, which provideth much and, varied food in the harvest against the inclemency of winter.”” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 6, 8. [The bee is not instanced in Scripture.]
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.3Book IV
““Go,” it is said, “to the ant, thou sluggard, and be the disciple of the bee;” thus speaks Solomon.” — editor's note: Prov. vi. 6, 8.
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