“"Many daughters have done mightily, but you have surpassed and outdone them all." You, he says, have surpassed them all, you have outdone them all. So who are these other daughters who have done mightily, whom this one has surpassed, and whom this one has outdone? And again, how have they done mightily, and in what wa…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — SERMON 37:27
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29Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
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27She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
— Proverbs 31:29 —
30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
31Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.