Proverbs 7:22 (WEB)
He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
Fathers and councils · 3
Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §13On Proverbs
“The “cemphus” is a kind of wild sea-bird, which has so immoderate an impulse to sexual enjoyment, that its eyes seem to fill with blood in coition; and it often blindly falls into snares, or into the hands of men.” — editor's note: Prov. vii. 22. The Hebrew word, rendered “straightway” in our version, is translated κεπφωθείς in the Septuagint, i.e., “ensnared like a cepphus.” [Quasi agnus…
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Augustine of Hippo
“For thus of him the Scripture doth make mention in another place: he saith that they are, as it were, made ready as for a victim, and that they are spared for an evil liberty.” — editor's note: Prov. vii. 22.
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Basil the Great
“Verily you have proved the truth of the proverb, “Like a hart stricken through the liver.”” — editor's note: cf. Prov. vii. 22, 23, LXX.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Letters Letter 45.
Cited together in Letters Letter 45.
Cited together in Letters Letter 45.