Provérbios 6
Jerome · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Provérbios 6:6
[Let us ponder] Solomon's sending us to learn wisdom from the ants, urging the sluggard to profit by their example. I began to weary of my capacity and to yearn for the cells of the monastery and to desire the comfort of the solicitude of those ants in whose community all worked together and where, since nothing belonged to anyone, all possessed all things in common. — LIFE OF MALCHUS 7
Provérbios 6:8
Construct also hives for bees, for to these the proverbs of Solomon send you, and you may learn from the tiny creatures how to order a monastery and to discipline a kingdom. — LETTER 125.11
Provérbios 6:26
We read in Proverbs, "The eyes of the harlot, the snare of the sinner." "Anyone who even looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery in his heart." There are as many snares as there are sins; as many hunters as there are snares. — HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS, ALTERNATE SERIES 68 (PSALM 90)
Provérbios 6:26-28
We must notice the apostle's prudence. He did not say, it is good not to have a wife, but it is good not to touch a woman: as though there were danger even in the touch, as though he who touched her would not escape from her who "hunts for the precious life" and causes the young man's understanding to fly away. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? As then he who touches fire is instantly burned, so by the mere touch the peculiar nature of man and woman is perceived, and the difference of sex is understood. — Against Jovinianus 1.7