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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness. And I find that woman is more bitter than death, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are as bands: whoever pleases God shall escape her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. "The Septuagint here has: "I even applied my heart that I should know". …
Bonaventure
The vehement proneness of concupiscence itself is touched upon, because it leads to the greatest bitterness under the appearance of sweetness. Therefore he says: "I found a woman more bitter than death," and this after the perpetration of the wicked deed to which concupiscence drags one: whence Proverbs 5: "The lips of a harlot are as a dropping honeycomb, and her throat is smoother than oil." That concupiscence drags one to this, which had its origin from woman and has its fuel in woman, which by its beauty ensnares through desire: …
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