“He who gives to harlots is ridiculous and shameful, and will have many quarrels, and brief pleasure; or rather, not even brief, because, give what he will to the women his mistresses, they will not thank him for it; for, "The house of a stranger is a cask with holes." Besides, that sort of persons is impudent, and Sol…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 87
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27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
— Proverbs 23:27 —
28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?