Commentary on the Song of Songs, Book IV · §16 · Origen of Alexandria

Heretic foxes; power to catch; little vines

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Of the church: foxes are perverse teachers of heresies; teachers of the church receive power to catch them as to tread on serpents. Little vineyards are unformed souls open to scandal; the perfect have much peace and no scandal.

Latin

De ecclesia: vulpes = perversi doctores haereticorum; doctores ecclesiae potestatem capiendi accipiunt sicut calcandi serpentes. Pusillae vineae = animae rudes scandalizabiles; perfectae pax multa sine scandalo.

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