Holy Scripture

Proverbs 30:20

A church father on this verse
“"Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who, when she has done the deed of sin, wipeth herself, and will say that no wickedness has been done." Such is the conduct of the Church that believes on Christ, when, after committing fornication with idols, she renounces these and the devil, and is cleansed of her sins and r…”
Hippolytus of Rome, 3th c. — Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture

Source: Septuagint

Original

20Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing * amiss.

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In context

18Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:

19the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.

— Proverbs 30:20 —

21By three things the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear:

22if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;

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