Counsel and Understanding

βουλὴ καλὴ φυλάξει σε, ἔννοια δὲ ὁσία τηρήσει σε. Βουλὴν δὲ λέγει τὴν προαίρεσιν, καθ' ἤν αἱρούμεθα τὰ πρακτέα ποιεῖν, ἢ καὶ μὴ· ἔννοιαν δὲ τὴν περὶ τὰ θεωρητὰ, ὥστε καταλιμπάνειν αὐτὰ, καὶ Θεῷ προσοικειοῦσθαι, τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ ὅση δύναμις φυλάττεσθαι. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Παροιμιας

Good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you. 1 Counsel concerns choice, according to which we choose which things to do and which things not to do, and understanding is concerning things visible, that to abandon such things is to draw near to God, guarding His commandments with holy virtue. Didymus the Blind, On Proverbs, fragment  1 Prov 2.11