Fathers

Loading…

What the Fathers say

Proverbs 7:22

Western Saints

Bede

Immediately he follows her, etc. That is, as if a foolish person, not knowing, he himself is led to destruction.

Commentary on Proverbs ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

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. To this, therefore, he compares the man who gives himself up to the harlot on account of his immoderate lust; or else on account of the insensate folly of the creature, for he, too, pursues his object like one senseless. …

Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments ↗