14 Mar 2018

The House of Virtue

Σταγόνες ἐκβάλλουσιν ἄνθρωπον ἐν ἡμέρᾳ χειμερινῇ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ ὡσαύτως καὶ γυνὴ λοίδορος ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου οἴκου  

Τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οἶκος ἡ ἀρετή· ἐὰν οὖν μὴ σπουδαίως ταύτης ἐπιμελῆται, ἐν καιρῷ πειρασμῶν ἐκπιπτει αὐτῆς.

Ὠριγένης, Ἐκλογαὶ Εἰς Παροιμίας

Dripping casts a man out on a winter day from his house, just like an abusive wife 1 

The house of a man is virtue, if then he does not have diligent care of it, in the time of testing it shall fall.


Origen, On Proverbs, Fragments

1 Prov 27.15






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