Clement of Alexandria, on Prov 5:20

“Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?”

“When Scripture says, "Do not keep going steady with a foreign woman," it is advising us to make use of secular education but not to settle there permanently. Each generation received beneficial gifts at the appropriate points, but they were in preparation for the Word of the Lord.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.