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What the Fathers say

Proverbs 5:20

Eastern Fathers

Clement of Alexandria

When Scripture says, "Do not keep going steady with a foreign woman," it is advising us to make use of secular education but not to settle there permanently. Each generation received beneficial gifts at the appropriate points, but they were in preparation for the Word of the Lord.

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Western Saints

Bede

Why are you led astray, my son, by a foreign woman? etc. And it should be understood of both the prostitute and heresy.

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