“That you may guard your thoughts, etc. Thoughts, by which you rightly believe; lips, by which you profess the faith itself in simple words, and usual, as well as ecclesiastical ones. But, according to the letter: He who adheres to a harlot defiles even his lips, either by kissing or speaking foul things.”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
Original
2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
— Proverbs 5:2 —
3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.