Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Car les lèvres de l'étrangère distillent le miel, Et son palais est plus doux que l'huile;
KJV
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 93 (Migne)
pugnare, qui adhuc hujus mundi negligit dulcedinem declinare. Mel enim distillant labia meretricis (Prov. V, 3) , quod est delectatio voluptatis carnalis. De quo [Col. 0434C] putatur juxta mysticos intellectus, hunc gestasse Jonathan, et sorte deprehensum vix precibus populi lib…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 101 (Migne)
, et ne recedas a verbis oris mei. Longe fac ab ea vias tuas, et ne appropinques foribus domus ejus (Prov. V, 3-8) . Hoc siquidem [Col. 0627A] non solum de meretricum immunditia dixit, sed etiam de omni carnis concupiscentia, quae sollicitat animam suis consentire desideriis. Se…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 104 (Migne)
um, virilibus animis concurrere, qui adhuc hujus mundi negligit dulcedinem declinare. [Col. 0659C] (Prov. v, 3) Mel enim distillant labia meretricis, quod est delectatio voluptatis carnalis, de quo putatur juxta mysticos intellectus hunc comedisse Jonathan, et sorte deprehensum…
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