Proverbs, cited

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 14 authority · 1 endorsed 15 citations · 48 passages

   book 1 17 passages anchored here · book 2 21 passages anchored here · book 3 3 passages anchored here · book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 6 4 passages anchored here · book 7

   Sayings explicitly attributed to Solomon are quoted repeatedly as authoritative wisdom teaching.

   " And "the wise do not bring out of their mouth what they reason in council.

2. Letters Basil of Caesarea 9 authority · 1 extended 10 citations · 13 passages

   letter 8 2 passages anchored here · letter 22 · letter 42 · letter 45 · letter 51 · letter 91 · letter 188 2 passages anchored here · letter 260

   and 3 more chapters

   letter 263 · letter 265 · letter 301

   Explicitly attributed to 'the wise Solomon in the Proverbs'.

   And at the same time this too must be said, that God who created us has made the natural faculties of judgment require no teaching.

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 3 authority 3 citations

   ch. 9 · chapter xi.: on promises. · ch. 31

   Explicitly cited by chapter and verse as corroborating evidence.

   The law of Moses too, for the sanction of capital punishments, gives reasons which operate no less with other nations, than with the Jewish people.

4. Adversus Hermogenem Tertullian 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 3 passages

   adversus hermogenem 3 passages anchored here

   Wisdom literature is extended into an argument identifying Wisdom with the Son.

   Let Hermogenes therefore acknowledge that for this reason too the Wisdom of God is proclaimed born and founded — lest we should believe anything unborn and unfounded except God alone.

5. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   adversus praxean 3 passages anchored here

   Proverbs' Wisdom passages are cited as evidence of the Son's pre-existence and generation.

   Or, if he stretched out the heaven thus alone, how do these heretics presume perversely, as though singular Wisdom were not admitted, who says, "When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him"?

6. Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   book 2

   Explicitly introduced as 'the divine pronouncement of Solomon' and relied on as authoritative.

   Him whom they had not thoroughly admitted, they could neither know nor fear, nor thence be wise — straying, of course, from the beginning of wisdom, that is, the fear of God.

7. De Pudicitia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de pudicitia

   Quoted directly at the opening of chapter 18.

   For in the Proverbs too of Solomon — which we call paroimiai — concerning the adulterer specifically, as nowhere expiable, he says, "But the adulterer, through want of senses, acquires the perdition of his own soul;