“It is proper that until we reach maturity, virtue of the soul be within us and personal, but when we reach full maturity so that we are capable also of teaching others, let us then no longer enclose virtue within our bosom as a wife but as a sister, let us unite her also with others who wish her. For to those who are…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 6:1
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4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
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2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
— Proverbs 7:4 —
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,