Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Yonathan traveled one day together; they came to two roads, one of which led by the door of a place devoted to the worship of idols, and the other by a place of ill fame. Upon which one said to the other, " Let us go by the former, because our inclination to the evil that waylays us there is already extinguished." • Nay, rather, said the other, "let us go by the latter, and curb our desires; so shall we receive a reward in recompense." In this resolution they went on, and as they passed the place the women humbled themselves before them and withdrew ashamed into their chambers. Then Yochanan asked the other, " How didst thou know that this would occur to us? He made answer, " From what is written (in Prov. ii. 2), Discretion (in the law) shall preserve thee.)W