Holy Scripture
Proverbs 1:7
A church father on this verse
“There are things practiced in a vulgar style by some people, such as control over pleasures. For as among the heathen there are those who, from the impossibility of obtaining what one sees and from fear of men, and also for the sake of greater pleasures, abstain from the delights before them, so also, in the case of f…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; And there is good understanding to all that practice it: And piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; But the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction.
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5For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, And the man of understanding will gain direction;
6And will understand a parable, and a dark speech; The sayings of the wise also, and riddles.
— Proverbs 1:7 —
8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And reject not the rules of thy mother.
9For thou shalt receive for thy head a crown of graces, And a chain of gold round thy neck.