Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Two Epistles Concerning Virginity/Second Pseudo-Clement/Chapter 12

by Clement of Rome

Chapter XII.—Solomon’s Infatuation Through Women.

Hast thou not read the history of Solomon, the son of David, the man to whom God gave wisdom, and knowledge, and largeness of mind,^[1] and riches, and much glory, beyond all men?  Yet this same man, through women, came to ruin,^[2] and departed from the Lord.

Footnotes

1. Lit. “heart.”
2. Or “perished.”