“We must observe that not every time something is named "darkness" is it taken in a bad sense; there are times when it has also been used in a good sense. It is because the heterodox did not make this distinction that they accepted the most irreverent doctrines concerning the Creator and withdrew from him and abandoned…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 2:171-73
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6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
— Proverbs 1:6 —
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: