Tobit 4:15
Deuterocanon
14 "Do not keep over until the next day the wages of those who work for you, but pay them at once. If you serve God you will receive payment. Watch yourself, my son, in everything you do, and discipline yourself in all your conduct. 15 And what you hate, do not do to anyone. Do not drink wine to excess or let drunkenness go with you on your way. 16 Give some of your food to the hungry, and some of your clothing to the naked. Give all your surplus as alms, and do not let your eye begrudge your giving of alms. 17 Place your bread on the grave of the righteous, but give none to sinners. 18 Seek advice from every wise person and do not despise any useful counsel.
Date: 225-175 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata 2.23
Patristic
According to the opinion of the Stoics, marriage and the rearing of children are a thing indifferent; and according to the Peripatetics, a good. In a word, these, following out their dogmas in words, became enslaved to pleasures; some using concubines, some mistresses, and the most youths. And that wise quaternion in the garden with a mistress, honoured pleasure by their acts. Those, then, will not escape the curse of yoking an ass with an ox, who, judging certain things not to suit them, command others to do them, or the reverse. This Scripture has briefly showed, when it says, "What thou hatest, thou shalt not do to another." But they who approve of marriage say, Nature has adapted us for marriage, as is evident from the structure of our bodies, which are male and female.
Date: 195 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... We find the Church Fathers quoting not only texts that have subsequently become canonical for the majority of Christians (i.e., “the Bible,” including the New Testament), but also texts of the apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and perhaps even otherwise unknown works. In all these instances, the stated origin of the quoted text is impersonal or divine. For example, 1 Enoch is likely quoted in Barnabas 16:5 and 6, with the [scriptural] formulae ... Other quotations of 1 Enoch include the following, also introduced with familiar formulae ... 1 Enoch in Barnabas 4:3 ... 1 Enoch in Origen, Commentary on John 6.25 ... Some of the Deuterocanonicals are quoted with similar formulae. For example Tertullian quotes the Wisdom of Solomon as scripture in Against the Valentinians 2.75. In the following examples, Clement of Alexandria quotes Tobit as Scripture and Ben Sira and Wisdom frequently using standard expressions ... Stromata 2.23 quoting Tobit 4:15 ... the Instructor quoting Sirach 21:6 ..."
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