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Bonaventure — on Wis 8:2 (Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 19)

Medieval 1274
Bonaventure · c. A.D. 1221–1274
“Do not love the harlot and dismiss your wife: "Her I loved and sought after from my youth." Do not take in the acorns and pods of the swine, lest with Absalom you be hung by the hair, that is, by your dispositions. The teachings of the ages are like the oak: lofty, noble, inflexible. Do not choose to eat the pumpkins of Egypt and the leeks and the garlic, but "bread from heaven." And do not be disgusted with that food, do not be carnal as were the sons of Israel. For these found but one flavor, while others, spiritual men, found the sweetness of every taste.”
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