State super vias et videte et interrogate de semitis antiquis quae sit via bona et ambulate in ea et invenietis refrigerium animabus vestris

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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