“"Let the fountain of your water be your own and let no stranger share with you." For all who do not love God are strangers, are antichrists. And although they enter the basilicas, they cannot be numbered among the sons of God. That fountain of life does not belong to them. Even an evil person can have baptism; even an…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 7:6
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16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
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14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
— Proverbs 5:16 —
17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.