“God is Father of the righteous. Whoever practices justice was born from God. Our mother is the church, whose bridegroom is our Lord Jesus Christ. Our laws are the apostolic constitutions. Even though the concepts expressed above have a sublime meaning, they also apply to earthly parents when they educate their childre…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, FRAGMENT 1:8
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8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
— Proverbs 1:8 —
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.