Romans 16:19

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For your obedience is well known unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and innocent concerning evil.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

Being “wise as to what is good” means doing good works, while being “guileless as to what is evil” means avoiding unrighteous deeds. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

The apostle admits that he rejoices because of the hearts of the innocent, and [in this verse] he gives a kind of definition of being as a child.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

On account of the hearts of the innocent, the apostle, in the Epistle to the Romans, owns that he rejoices, and furnishes a kind of definition of children, so to speak, when he says, "I would have you wise toward good, but simple towards evil."

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