“I will hope in Him, for He Himself shall deliver me from the snare of the hunters. In this world there are many hunters who long to capture our souls, just as is said by the prophet: "Our soul has been snatched away like a sparrow from the snare of the hunters." Now that hunters are taken in a sinister sense in the ho…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 68, on Psalm 90 (Alternate Series)
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26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
— Proverbs 6:26 —
27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?