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1 II, 13 | shall not feel them; let us abandon luxuries, and we shall not
2 II, 2 | desiring that that (gift) may abide in us to the end, yet not
3 II, 1intro| quite forsake the polluted abode. But on the present occasion
4 II, 11 | dress." Let us, then, not abolish our old vices! let us maintain
5 I, 3 | world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things. If that is
6 | above
7 II, 2 | the father of the faith, Abraham, greatly feared in regard
8 II, 1intro| sense of true modesty is absent, because in those who know
9 II, 9 | very "creature of God," abstaining from wine and animal food,
10 II, 10 | praiseworthy (the servant) who abstains entirely; who has a wholesome
11 II, 5 | delivered (the precept of) abstinence from what is another's!--
12 II, 9 | body with the luxurious absurdities of pomps and delicacies?
13 I, 7 | not held of so high worth. Abundance is always contumelious toward
14 II, 9 | use this world as if we abuse it not; for the fashion
15 II, 13 | that malice may have no access at all to you, or that you
16 II, 1intro| ITS ESSENCE, BUT IN ITS ACCESSORIES.~Handmaids of the living
17 I, 1intro| with the cupidity (which accompanies it), from the ground; if
18 I, 1intro| had neither had nor known. Accordingly these things are all the
19 I, 4 | disgracing." The former is accounted (to consist) in gold, and
20 II, 10 | those (angels) who, on these accounts, have provoked the anger
21 I, 5 | is that so high dignity accrues to gold and silver, since
22 II, 2 | their instancy, sometimes achieve (a wickedness) which God
23 II, 8 | and if this sex of ours acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries
24 II, 11 | public shows, nor have any acquaintance with the holy days of the
25 I, 1intro| she now to crave, or be acquainted with (if she desires to
26 I, 3 | assigned this order (of action) to angels, is not received
27 I, 8 | too, with regard to their active use, does the origin of
28 II, 1intro| degree that, although it be actively tenacious of itself in the
29 II, 2 | caution to save us. He who acts securely, and not at the
30 | actually
31 II, 5 | it is, undoubtedly, who adapted ingenious devices of this
32 I, 3 | these considerations is added the fact that Enoch possesses
33 II, 5 | work;) taking these their additions, of course, from the adversary
34 II, 1intro| brotherhood--emboldens me to address to you a discourse, not,
35 II, 12 | judged (her to be one), and addressed and bargained with (her
36 II, 4 | were speaking to Gentiles, addressing you with a Gentile precept,
37 I, 3 | some, because it is not admitted into the Jewish canon either.
38 I, 1intro| And do you think about adorning yourself over and above
39 II, 8 | THESE REMARKS ON PERSONAL ADORNMENT.~Of course, now, I, a man,
40 II, 12 | XII. SUCH OUTWARD ADORNMENTS MERETRICIOUS, AND THEREFORE
41 I, 8 | can garments derive from adulteration with illegitimate colours?
42 II, 5 | another's!--to practise adultery in your mien, (you,) who
43 I, 2 | sex as men: the self-same advancement to the dignity of judging,
44 I, 6 | underlaying that they may show to advantage, and careful piercing that
45 I, 5 | more necessary to human affairs, but do also none the less
46 I, 1intro| humble garb, and rather to affect meanness of appearance,
47 II, 7 | simplicity: beside which, you affix I know not what enormities
48 II, 9 | upon whom the ends of the ages have met, having ended their
49 I, 3 | literature is generally agreed to have been restored through
50 II, 7 | up to meet Christ in the air If these (decorations) are
51 II, 5 | to be instructed. But how alien from your schoolings and
52 I, 3 | would not have been silent alike concerning the disposition (
53 II, 9 | the fact that it is by the allied aid of dress that they prostitute
54 II, 3 | For even if "glorying" is (allowable), we ought to wish our sphere
55 II, 7 | salvation? Why is no rest allowed to your hair, which must
56 I, 6 | assistance in meretricious allurement. But whatever it is that
57 II, 8 | sobriety? her assistant and ally. How, then, shall we practise
58 II, 6 | on her head, as upon an altar? For, whatever is wont to
59 II, 9 | unaffectedness, and a simplicity altogether worthy of the divine discipline,
60 I, 9 | that from concupiscence ambient in the mind it is born,
61 I, 9 | Such is the strength of ambition--(equal) to bearing on one
62 II, 5 | censure they, do when they amend, when they add to, (His
63 II, 13 | darkness, and stand eminent amid them who are sunk down?
64 I, 9 | smallest caskets is produced an ample patrimony. On a single thread
65 II, 2 | concupiscence, if God, in "amplifying the law," do not dissociate
66 I, 2 | are,) have the self-same angelic nature promised as your
67 II, 10 | accounts, have provoked the anger and the vengeance of God?
68 II, 9 | abstaining from wine and animal food, the enjoyments of
69 I, 8 | feeds (thereon), and the animals which are made the victims,
70 II, 13 | that has rejoiced in the anklet will suffer itself to be
71 II, 5 | their eyes prominent with antimony, sin against HIM. To them,
72 I, 5 | iron, but the memory of antiquity still preserves (the fame
73 I, 1intro| perdition. "In pains and in anxieties dost thou bear (children),
74 II, 7 | now thinned out? Some are anxious to force their hair into
75 II, 8 | consulting the minor; to gaze anxiously into it:-while yet, when (
76 | anywhere
77 II, 13 | ornaments of prophets and apostles; drawing your whiteness
78 II, 5 | in your persons it may be apparent that you, in a certain sense,
79 II, 9 | sentiments about these vain appliances of theirs? Why, are there
80 I, 8 | PURPOSES TO WHICH HE HAS APPOINTED THEM.~Similarly, too, do
81 II, 2 | More useful, then, is it to apprehend that we may possibly fail,
82 II, 2 | presume that we cannot; for apprehending will lead us to fear, fearing
83 II, 6 | whom it is unsightly to approach (your own) end!~
84 II, 12 | invariably conjoined with and appropriate to bodily prostitution.
85 II, 1intro| the introduction into an appropriation (in) us of the Holy Spirit,
86 II, 13 | it is not necessary to be approved by men; for I do not require
87 I, 8 | or the atrocities of the arena, or the turpitudes of the
88 II, 9 | CULTURE, TO BE SHUNNED. ARGUMENTS DRAWN FROM I COR. VII.~Wherefore,
89 II, 11 | go forth clad in your own armour; (and) all the more, in
90 I, 2 | circlets of gold wherewith the arms are compressed, and the
91 II, 8 | round about (the mouth); to arrange the hair, and disguise its
92 II, 7 | all the labour spent in arranging the hair render to salvation?
93 II, 11 | HENCE FOR DRESSING IN FINE ARRAY AS GENTILES. ON THE CONTRARY,
94 II, 13 | please" better than (by arraying yourselves) in gold. Clothe
95 I, 6 | that they may shine, and artful underlaying that they may
96 II, 4 | believe in it unless it be artless. Why are you eager to please
97 II, 10 | moreover, of working them with arts introduced by the means
98 I, 2 | well-revealed scientific arts--if it is true that they
99 II, 1intro| Necessary it is that you turn aside from them, as in all other
100 II, 8 | countenance, and in the general aspect of the entire man, mark
101 II, 2 | and) the owner himself aspersed with the infamy. Are we
102 I, 3 | consideration) to warrant our assertion of (the genuineness of)
103 I, 4 | discipline, inasmuch as you are assessed on different principles (
104 II, 6 | their procreation did not assign them to Germany and to Gaul:
105 I, 6 | render to gold a mutual assistance in meretricious allurement.
106 II, 8 | there is sobriety? her assistant and ally. How, then, shall
107 II, 5 | transgression. Shall a Christian be assisted in anything by that evil
108 II, 12 | way. against all immodest associations and suspicions. For why
109 I, 2 | forsooth, made a grand match! Assuredly they who, of course, did
110 I, 8 | of the racecourse, or the atrocities of the arena, or the turpitudes
111 I, 8 | a Christian ought not to attach himself to the frenzies
112 I, 2 | that this ignominy also attaches to woman. For when to an
113 I, 1intro| was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily
114 II, 9 | as not to appear to have attained wisdom, take heed to temper
115 II, 6 | having lived to old age do attempt to change it even from white
116 I, 9 | PREY OF AMBITION AND ITS ATTENDANT EVILS.~For, as some particular
117 I, 4 | parts of the body which attract the eye. Against the one
118 II, 8 | please by means of voluptuous attraction, all these things are rejected
119 II, 12 | reflection), that meretricious attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined
120 II, 3 | it to themselves also, to augment that (beauty) when (naturally)
121 II, 6 | Ill, ay, most ill, do they augur for themselves with their
122 I, 8 | which are not from God, the Author of nature. Thus they are
123 II, 12 | a thing from which I am averse hoped for in me? Why does
124 II, 4 | will incur the hatred and aversion of husbands. Every husband
125 II, 13 | carry us are (now) being awaited! Do you go forth (to meet
126 I, 3 | PROPHECY OF ENOCH."~I am aware that the Scripture of Enoch,
127 I, 6 | that I know conchs (which axe) sweet fruits of the sea.
128 I, 3 | destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document
129 I, 1intro| with the needle, and the Babylonians with the loom, and pearls
130 I, 2 | FEMALE ORNAMENTATION, TRACED BACK TO THE ANGELS WHO HAD FALLEN.~
131 II, 7 | crown; now, a mass (drawn) backward toward the neck. The wonder
132 I, 1intro| these things are all the baggage of woman in her condemned
133 II, 7 | destined to hell. Nay, rather banish quite away from your "free"
134 II, 8 | being envious of women, am banishing them quite from their own (
135 I, 2 | these are the angels whom in baptism we renounce: these, of course,
136 II, 12 | one), and addressed and bargained with (her as such). Whence
137 I, 2 | of lust, there is nothing base of which the wages are honourable.
138 II, 13 | painting your eyes with bashfulness, and your mouth with silence;
139 II, 8 | own,--(such as) to cut the beard too sharply; to pluck it
140 II, 3 | holy woman, if naturally beautiful, give none so great occasion (
141 | became
142 | BECOMING
143 | begin
144 II, 6 | so they refute the Lord! "Behold!" say they, "instead of
145 II, 2 | dangerous to the glances of (the beholder's) eyes. For, albeit comeliness
146 II, 1intro| the manner in which it behoves you to walk. For most women (
147 I, 2 | take it, as Christ has with Belial. With what consistency do
148 II, 1intro| For if any modesty can be believed (to exist) in Gentiles,
149 II, 4 | cherish your beauty? If for a believer, he does not exact it: if
150 II, 4 | chastity; but beauty, a believing (husband) does not require,
151 II, 5 | Christian") will continue (to belong) to him; for he will be
152 I, 1intro| one of you at all, best beloved sisters, from the time that
153 I, 7 | Emeralds lurk in their belts; and the sword (that hangs)
154 II, 12 | the quality of her garb belying her as if she had been a
155 II, 13 | the gyve! I fear the neck, beset with pearl and emerald nooses,
156 | besides
157 II, 13 | home; and you will "please" better than (by arraying yourselves)
158 II, 10 | escaped Him, when He was bidding the universe to come into
159 II, 7 | manufacturers of false hair. God bids you "be veiled." I believe (
160 II, 9 | exigencies of riches, or birth, or past dignities, compel
161 II, 11 | truly the nations will not blaspheme! A grand blasphemy is that
162 II, 11 | some, "Let not the Name be blasphemed in us, if we make any derogatory
163 II, 9 | fact, which are at last blest with quiet and withdrawn
164 II, 6 | of our wishes and prayers blushes (for itself)! a theft is
165 I, 7 | Rome the nobility of gems blushing in the presence of our matrons
166 II, 10 | from those scars of the body--born for the steel!--should
167 II, 13 | these things which are the bonds which retard our hope. Let
168 II, 1intro| for anything extrinsic to boot--in the matter (I mean) of
169 II, 9 | they render (that grace) bootless and thankless, as if it
170 II, 9 | the enjoyments of which border upon no peril or solicitude;
171 II, 5 | criminal is it! Our servants borrow nothing from our personal
172 I, 7 | that hangs) below their bosom alone is witness to the
173 II, 9 | if you do not keep within bounds the enjoyment of your riches
174 II, 13 | surrounded with the palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till it grow
175 I, 6 | dragons, just as in the brains of fishes there is a certain
176 II, 10 | suffer with its earliest breath, in order that from those
177 II, 1intro| studied graces of form and brilliance:--wearing in their gait
178 II, 8 | How, moreover, shall we bring sobriety to bear on the
179 I, 6 | ambition fishes up from the British or the Indian sea, it is
180 II, 13 | will give no room to the broadsword! Wherefore, blessed (sisters),
181 II, 11 | is serious. Either some brother who is sick is visited,
182 II, 1intro| of fellow-servantship and brotherhood--emboldens me to address
183 II, 13 | He compared us to a city built upon a mountain; if we do
184 II, 6 | whatever is wont to be burned to the honour of the unclean
185 II, 6 | the force of the cosmetics burns ruin into the hair; and
186 II, 13 | the mind to the garb, and burst out from the conscience
187 II, 13 | hide your lamp beneath a bushel, you must necessarily be
188 II, 13 | will be enough adorned. Busy your hands with spinning;
189 I, 6 | oyster and the sea-snail, but--even the giant muscle. For
190 II, 9 | passing away." And "they who buy are so to act as if they
191 I, 3 | survived that world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things.
192 I, 2 | these questions admit of no calculation. Women who possessed angels (
193 I, 3 | admitted into the Jewish canon either. I suppose they did
194 II, 4 | require, because we are not captivated by the same graces which
195 II, 1intro| craving after that of which it carefully shuns the effect. How many
196 II, 4 | please others. Be ye without carefulness, blessed (sisters): no wife
197 II, 9 | circumcision--spiritual and carnal--of all things; for both
198 II, 8 | the entire man, mark our carriage?~
199 II, 2 | merely, and not applied and carried out with a view to every
200 I, 9 | desired. From the smallest caskets is produced an ample patrimony.
201 II, 13 | retard our hope. Let us cast away earthly ornaments if
202 II, 10 | how far more usefully and cautiously shall we act, if we hazard
203 II, 2 | comeliness is not to be censured, as being a bodily happiness,
204 II, 3 | occasion (for carnal appetite). Certainly, if even she be so, she
205 II, 7 | you will rise with (your) ceruse and rouge and saffron, and
206 II, 13 | numb hardness of its own chain! I know not whether the
207 I, 7 | their convict establishments chained with gold, and to lade the
208 II, 10 | literature. tells us) for chains! So true is it that it is
209 II, 12 | shamelessness through (the channel of) nay ears? Grant that
210 II, 9 | of age by the provocative charms of apparel. First, then,
211 II, 10 | substances of this kind and their charms--of gold, I mean, and lustrous
212 II, 9 | of their soul even in the chastened use of food? Sufficiently,
213 II, 9 | by God for the purpose of chastising, and (so to say) emasculating,
214 II, 5 | medicaments, stain their cheeks with rouge, make their eyes
215 II, 4 | whom, then, is it that you cherish your beauty? If for a believer,
216 I, 1intro| anxieties dost thou bear (children), woman; and toward thine
217 II, 9 | which compensate for the chili of age by the provocative
218 I, 2 | are variegated, and the circlets of gold wherewith the arms
219 II, 11 | For you neither make the circuit of the temples, nor demand (
220 II, 9 | spirit and in the flesh we circumcise worldly principles.~
221 II, 9 | emasculating, the world. We are the circumcision--spiritual and carnal--of
222 II, 13 | has He compared us to a city built upon a mountain; if
223 II, 11 | call you, why not go forth clad in your own armour; (and)
224 II, 11 | you have been made more clean? Is it according to the
225 II, 13 | arraying yourselves) in gold. Clothe yourselves with the silk
226 II, 9 | Wherefore, with regard to clothing also, and all the remaining
227 II, 10 | of purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped
228 II, 6 | see some (women) turn (the colour of) their hair with saffron.
229 I, 2 | orchil with which wools are coloured, and that black powder itself
230 II, 4 | him as his wife); whether commended by form or by character.
231 I, 2 | with their judges? What commerce have they who are to condemn
232 II, 2 | penalty from the actual commission of fornication, I know not
233 II, 4 | precept, and (one which is) common to all, (I would say,) "
234 II, 13 | of the world; why has He compared us to a city built upon
235 II, 12 | instrumental mean of her comparison with that appellation? She
236 II, 3 | desirers, nor perilous to its compartners; let it be thought (to be)
237 II, 6 | hurtful. What "grace" is compatible with "injury?" What "beauty"
238 I, 9 | anywhere, among their own compatriots, because in them there is
239 II, 9 | birth, or past dignities, compel to appear in public so gorgeously
240 II, 9 | seductions of appetite, which compensate for the chili of age by
241 I, 2 | if they had conferred no (compensating) gift on the women who had
242 I, 2 | gold wherewith the arms are compressed, and the medicaments of
243 II, 6 | The more old age tries to conceal itself, the more will it
244 II, 2 | grace must be obliterated by concealment and negligence, as equally
245 I, 2 | them are assigned, under condemnation, to the penalty of death,--
246 II, 10 | of continence should be conducted? Do not wise heads of families
247 I, 2 | these things as well as to confer them? Was it that women,
248 II, 2 | substantiality of faith, as to be confident and secure in regard of
249 II, 2 | Holy Spirit ought to be (confined) to the subject immediately
250 II, 10 | grand implements of gold for confining or parting the hair; God
251 II, 12 | we gather an additional confirmation of the lesson, that provision
252 II, 12 | attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined with and appropriate to
253 I, 9 | And there are other vices connected with ambition and glory.
254 I, 2 | who had been enticed into connubial connection with them? But
255 I, 3 | Noah) had not had this (conservative power) by so short a route,
256 I, 4 | TERTULLIAN PROPOSES TO CONSIDER THE THINGS ON THEIR OWN
257 I, 3 | there would (still) be this (consideration) to warrant our assertion
258 I, 3 | not to receive. To these considerations is added the fact that Enoch
259 I, 4 | former is accounted (to consist) in gold, and silver, and
260 II, 1intro| so to walk as if modesty consisted only in the (bare) integrity
261 I, 2 | has with Belial. With what consistency do we mount that (future)
262 II, 1intro| only, but likewise of men--consists in the exhibition principally
263 II, 6 | ruin into the hair; and the constant application of even any
264 II, 10 | worth, but rarity, which constitutes the goodness (of these things):
265 II, 8 | take every opportunity for consulting the minor; to gaze anxiously
266 I, 7 | presence of our matrons at the contemptuous usage of the Parthians and
267 II, 7 | that there is no (open) contending against the Lord's prescripts!
268 II, 10 | the experimental trials of continence should be conducted? Do
269 II, 5 | name (of "Christian") will continue (to belong) to him; for
270 II, 11 | ARRAY AS GENTILES. ON THE CONTRARY, THEIR APPEARANCE SHOULD
271 I, 2 | splendour, and without ingenious contrivances of grace, could not please
272 I, 9 | woman's, the product of so copious wealth:~
273 II, 9 | ARGUMENTS DRAWN FROM I COR. VII.~Wherefore, with regard
274 I, 8 | from the devil, from the corrupter of nature: for there is
275 I, 9 | have withal enhanced the cost of things, in order that (
276 II, 8 | seriousness in appearance and in countenance, and in the general aspect
277 I, 5 | substances which are not only cousin-german to them in point of origin,
278 II, 7 | sheath for the head and a covering for the crown; now, a mass (
279 I, 1intro| already dead, would also have coveted these things, I imagine!
280 I, 1intro| then, ought she now to crave, or be acquainted with (
281 II, 1intro| with Gentile perversity, in craving after that of which it carefully
282 II, 10 | represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped neck ornaments; still let
283 II, 5 | Satan's ingenuities, how criminal is it! Our servants borrow
284 I, 7 | is customary to keep (the criminals) in their convict establishments
285 II, 7 | head and a covering for the crown; now, a mass (drawn) backward
286 II, 3 | order that the spirit may be crowned in it, not in order that
287 I, 2 | uncouth and--so to say--crude and rude, had moved (the
288 II, 5 | developed into an entire crudity and wildness of appearance;
289 II, 3 | hope for salvation, let us cull our "glory." Plainly, a
290 I, 6 | say, too, that gems are culled from the foreheads of dragons,
291 II, 7 | be bound, now loosed, now cultivated, now thinned out? Some are
292 II, 5 | norm and just measure of cultivation of the person. There must
293 II, 9 | AS WELL AS IN PERSONAL CULTURE, TO BE SHUNNED. ARGUMENTS
294 I, 1intro| already issued, with the cupidity (which accompanies it),
295 I, 2 | and had traced out every curious art, even to the interpretation
296 II, 7 | to force their hair into curls, some to let it hang loose
297 I, 7 | indigenous and plentiful, it is customary to keep (the criminals)
298 I, 7 | alone is witness to the cylindrical stones that decorate its
299 II, 12 | now, at all events, the daily increasing depravity of
300 II, 2 | why are we a (source of) danger to our neighbour? why do
301 II, 2 | and negligence, as equally dangerous to the glances of (the beholder'
302 II, 11 | acquaintance with the holy days of the Gentiles. Now it
303 I, 5 | wrought by penal labour in the deadly laboratories of accursed
304 I, 2 | condemnation, to the penalty of death,--those angels, to wit,
305 I, 1intro| of your desert--that is, death--even the Son of God had
306 II, 8 | ours acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries of form peculiarly
307 II, 12 | should appear in public decked and painted out after the
308 I, 2 | quality of these things may be declared meantime, even at this point,
309 I, 7 | cylindrical stones that decorate its hilt; and the massive
310 II, 2 | mentally already committed (the deed) which his concupiscence
311 II, 12 | integrity of a chaste mind defiled by its neighbour's suspicion?
312 II, 1intro| undisciplined to such a degree that, although it be actively
313 I, 9 | million of sesterces. One delicate neck carries about it forests
314 II, 5 | another's, (you,) to whom is delivered (the precept of) abstinence
315 II, 3 | neighbour that which is demanded of beauty, they are furnishing
316 II, 1intro| herself painted out, and denies that she has (ever) been
317 I, 6 | supporting pediments, or giving density to roofs? The only edifice
318 I, 5 | needs of our whole life are dependent upon iron and brass; whereas
319 II, 12 | events, the daily increasing depravity of the age has raised so
320 I, 1intro| fully expiate that which she derives from Eve,--the ignominy,
321 II, 11 | blasphemed in us, if we make any derogatory change from our old style
322 I, 8 | material substances, which descends from God, excuse (that use)
323 II, 12 | prostitute could not have been described! It was the fact that Thamar "
324 I, 1intro| man. On account of your desert--that is, death--even the
325 I, 1intro| tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are
326 I, 2 | the reasons why they have deserved to be judged by man. What
327 II, 6 | the sun's warmth, too, so desirable for imparting to the hair
328 II, 3 | nor destructive to its desirers, nor perilous to its compartners;
329 II, 5 | refinements limit their desires--that line which is pleasing
330 II, 2 | regard of our own conscience, desiring that that (gift) may abide
331 II, 2 | been made the sword which destroys him: so that, albeit you
332 I, 3 | the deluge, as, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian
333 II, 3 | troublesome to its possessors, nor destructive to its desirers, nor perilous
334 I, 4 | themselves, in order that we may detect the purposes also for which
335 II, 6 | itself, the more will it be detected. Here is a veritable eternity,
336 II, 5 | to you, of course, to be developed into an entire crudity and
337 II, 5 | undoubtedly, who adapted ingenious devices of this kind; that in your
338 II, 10 | sheep! It was God, too, who devised by careful thought the manufactures
339 I, 1intro| even the Son of God had to die. And do you think about
340 I, 4 | inasmuch as you are assessed on different principles (from other women),--
341 II, 12 | honourable women, that the difficulty is to distinguish them.
342 II, 9 | riches, or birth, or past dignities, compel to appear in public
343 I, 5 | turn of gold and silver, by dint of their own powers, in
344 II, 8 | the fear due to God, are disallowed? If it is true, (as it is,)
345 II, 9 | thankless, as if it were disarmed and wrecked. On the other
346 II, 13 | manliness of faith are to be discarded. Otherwise, I know not whether
347 II, 9 | with modesty, is easily discernible from the fact that it is
348 II, 9 | the knowledge of saving disciplines. We are they "upon whom
349 II, 1intro| emboldens me to address to you a discourse, not, of course, of affection,
350 I, 4 | this early stage (of our discussion) you may look forward and
351 II, 3 | superfluous, you may justly disdain if you have it not, and
352 I, 4 | should be called "womanly disgracing." The former is accounted (
353 II, 8 | to arrange the hair, and disguise its hoariness by dyes; to
354 II, 11 | else the word of God is dispensed. Whichever of these you
355 I, 5 | whose usefulness is so disposed (by the Creator), that they
356 I, 3 | silent alike concerning the disposition (of things) made by God,
357 II, 9 | rest and that harbour), and disquiet seriousness by seductions
358 II, 1intro| simple ignorance or else from dissimulation, have the hardihood so to
359 II, 2 | amplifying the law," do not dissociate in (the way of) penalty
360 I, 9 | as some particular things distributed by God over certain individual
361 I, 3 | suitable for edification is divinely inspired. By the yews it
362 I, 2 | operations of metallurgy, and had divulged the natural properties of
363 I, 3 | Babylonian storming of it, every document of the Jewish literature
364 II, 2 | s charge, while yet the domain is branded with ignominy, (
365 II, 8 | them quite from their own (domains). Are there, in our case
366 I, 3 | heard and remembered, from domestic renown and hereditary tradition,
367 I, 1intro| In pains and in anxieties dost thou bear (children), woman;
368 II, 10 | Creator, not likewise a Downlooker on His own creatures. For
369 II, 9 | down the fruits of your dowries, before (receiving) the
370 I, 6 | culled from the foreheads of dragons, just as in the brains of
371 II, 3 | not in order that it may draw the eyes and sighs of youths
372 II, 13 | of prophets and apostles; drawing your whiteness from simplicity,
373 II, 10 | unlawful who has a reverent dread of what is lawful?~
374 I, 5 | certain vessels for eating and drinking made out of brass. Let the
375 I, 5 | into the ground; no nail drives a silver point into planks.
376 II, 6 | hair at once growth and dryness, is hurtful. What "grace"
377 II, 8 | maintain on account of the fear due to God, are disallowed?
378 I, 5 | themselves, requiring both to be dug up out of mines, and needing
379 I, 1intro| THROUGH A WOMAN.~If there dwelt upon earth a faith as great
380 II, 10 | doubt, who showed the way to dye wools with the juices of
381 I, 1intro| spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed, and the Phrygians embroidered
382 II, 6 | VI. OF DYEING THE HAIR.~I see some (women)
383 II, 10 | of) eyelid-powder and the dyeings of fleeces, have been condemned
384 II, 8 | disguise its hoariness by dyes; to remove all the incipient
385 II, 4 | be artless. Why are you eager to please either one who
386 II, 10 | learning to suffer with its earliest breath, in order that from
387 I, 4 | so that even from this early stage (of our discussion)
388 II, 1intro| short, is there who does not earnestly desire even to look pleasing
389 I, 5 | of) certain vessels for eating and drinking made out of
390 I, 5 | mattock plunges a golden edge into the ground; no nail
391 I, 3 | every Scripture suitable for edification is divinely inspired. By
392 I, 6 | density to roofs? The only edifice which they know how to rear
393 II, 11 | to them, and they may be edified in you; so that (as the
394 I, 9 | concupiscence of having it. Hence is educed another vice--that of immoderate
395 II, 1intro| which it carefully shuns the effect. How many a one, in short,
396 II, 6 | for itself)! a theft is effected! youth, wherein we have
397 II, 13 | tend by their softness and effeminacy to unman the manliness of
398 II, 9 | enjoyment of your riches and elegancies, which tend so much to "
399 II, 7 | miserable (as I am), may elevate my head, even though below (
400 II, 9 | chastising, and (so to say) emasculating, the world. We are the circumcision--
401 II, 1intro| fellow-servantship and brotherhood--emboldens me to address to you a discourse,
402 I, 1intro| dyed, and the Phrygians embroidered with the needle, and the
403 II, 13 | neck, beset with pearl and emerald nooses, will give no room
404 I, 7 | with a view to ostentation. Emeralds lurk in their belts; and
405 II, 13 | of) darkness, and stand eminent amid them who are sunk down?
406 I, 2 | promulgated the powers of enchantments, and had traced out every
407 II, 9 | the ages have met, having ended their course." We have been
408 II, 9 | are they "upon whom the ends of the ages have met, having
409 II, 3 | it will be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's
410 II, 5 | nothing from our personal enemies: soldiers eagerly desire
411 I, 9 | glory. Thus they have withal enhanced the cost of things, in order
412 II, 5 | simplicity in every form is enjoined!--to lie in your appearance, (
413 II, 1intro| not about modesty, for the enjoining and exacting of which the
414 I, 8 | follow that such ways of enjoying them among men (are so too).
415 II, 9 | not keep within bounds the enjoyment of your riches and elegancies,
416 II, 9 | wine and animal food, the enjoyments of which border upon no
417 II, 7 | you affix I know not what enormities of subtle and textile perukes;
418 II, 7 | you feel no shame at the enormity, feel some at the pollution;
419 I, 2 | on the women who had been enticed into connubial connection
420 II, 10 | the servant) who abstains entirely; who has a wholesome fear
421 II, 2 | about your) neighbour's?" No enunciation of the Holy Spirit ought
422 II, 8 | now, I, a man, as being envious of women, am banishing them
423 I, 9 | the strength of ambition--(equal) to bearing on one small
424 II, 12 | has raised so nearly to an equality with all the most honourable
425 II, 10 | God permitted them; that Esaias finds fault with no garment
426 II, 10 | humours of conchs! It had escaped Him, when He was bidding
427 I, 7 | criminals) in their convict establishments chained with gold, and to
428 II, 2 | committed on some man's estate, the (actual) crime indeed
429 I, 5 | operation; in order that, in the estimation of nature, the substance
430 II, 6 | detected. Here is a veritable eternity, in the (perennial) youth
431 II, 9 | and seal themselves up to eunuchhood for the sake of the kingdom
432 I, 9 | AMBITION AND ITS ATTENDANT EVILS.~For, as some particular
433 II, 4 | a believer, he does not exact it: if for an unbeliever,
434 II, 1intro| modesty, for the enjoining and exacting of which the divine precepts
435 II, 4 | husbands. Every husband is the exactor of chastity; but beauty,
436 II, 9 | been the wont of glory to exalt, not to humble. "Why, shall
437 I, 4 | carnal marriage: let us examine the qualities of the things
438 I, 5 | glory, why, iron and brass excel them; whose usefulness is
439 II, 9 | IX. EXCESS IN DRESS, AS WELL AS IN
440 II, 2 | conscience: why therefore excite toward yourself that evil (
441 II, 10 | joined with their rarity, excited their costliness, and hence
442 I, 9 | in the eyes of strangers, excites, from the simple fact of
443 II, 8 | VIII. MEN NOT EXCLUDED FROM THESE REMARKS ON PERSONAL
444 I, 6 | understood than some hard, round excrescence of the fish. Some say, too,
445 I, 8 | which descends from God, excuse (that use) as foreign to
446 II, 2 | to be desired, but even execrated, by you: first, because
447 I, 9 | slender lobes of the ears exhaust a fortune; and the left
448 II, 11 | all pomps (of dress) are exhibited before the public eye; either
449 II, 1intro| of men--consists in the exhibition principally of modesty.
450 II, 11 | occasions which call for such exhibitions? For you neither make the
451 II, 9 | are any of you whom the exigencies of riches, or birth, or
452 II, 1intro| modesty can be believed (to exist) in Gentiles, it is plain
453 I, 1intro| reward of faith which is expected in the heavens, no one of
454 II, 10 | lawful, but not all are expedient." How much more easily will
455 I, 1intro| to lie so largely, Eve, expelled from paradise, (Eve) already
456 II, 2 | a wickedness) which God expels from them who are His; (
457 II, 10 | be the means whereby the experimental trials of continence should
458 I, 1intro| she might the more fully expiate that which she derives from
459 II, 3 | it be thought (to be) not exposed to temptations, not surrounded
460 II, 11 | and sanctity, requiring no extraordinary attire, with (studious)
461 II, 1intro| to relax into licentious extravagances of attire; just in accordance
462 II, 9 | world was, (to arise) in the extreme end of the times. And so
463 II, 1intro| were no need for anything extrinsic to boot--in the matter (
464 II, 7 | that day" of Christian exultation, I, most miserable (as I
465 II, 13 | joys in being seen, and exults over the very pointings
466 I, 2 | wherewith the eyelids and eyelashes are made prominent. What
467 II, 10 | instructions), in (the virtues of) eyelid-powder and the dyeings of fleeces,
468 I, 2 | powder itself wherewith the eyelids and eyelashes are made prominent.
469 I, 3 | have been restored through Ezra. But since Enoch in the
470 I, 8 | barbarians cause the glory to fade from the colours of our
471 II, 2 | apprehend that we may possibly fail, than to presume that we
472 II, 9 | hand, if natural beauty fails, the supporting aid of outward
473 I, 7 | pearls on their boots are fain to get lifted out of the
474 II, 7 | skilful manufacturers of false hair. God bids you "be veiled."
475 II, 2 | wife's grace; and Isaac, by falsely representing Rebecca as
476 I, 5 | antiquity still preserves (the fame of) certain vessels for
477 II, 1intro| even this is a practice familiar to Gentile modesty--(namely,)
478 II, 10 | conducted? Do not wise heads of families purposely offer and permit
479 I, 8 | of course ought not to be fashioned. Those things, then, are
480 I, 5 | means of gold, nor the ship fastened together by the strength
481 I, 4 | pomp by the (fact of the) fate of its authors; let nothing
482 II, 13 | to hate what mined your fathers; what was adored by them
483 II, 10 | them; that Esaias finds fault with no garment of purple,
484 I, 9 | He willed, ever finding favour in the eyes of strangers,
485 II, 2 | apprehending will lead us to fear, fearing to caution, and caution
486 I, 8 | wine, and the fire which feeds (thereon), and the animals
487 II, 13 | with spinning; keep your feet at home; and you will "please"
488 I, 7 | and the rest of their own fellow-countrymen, only that (their gems)
489 II, 1intro| Handmaids of the living God, my fellow-servants and sisters, the right which
490 II, 1intro| meanest in that right of fellow-servantship and brotherhood--emboldens
491 II, 2 | other, as soon as he has felt concupiscence after your
492 I, 9 | in them there is no such fervid longing for a glory which,
493 I, 5 | all events, neither is the field tilled by means of gold,
494 II, 13 | forsaking God. Even then (we find) gold is food for the fire.
495 I, 9 | ordered as He willed, ever finding favour in the eyes of strangers,
496 II, 10 | introduced (the fashion of) finely-cut wounds for the ears, and
497 I, 9 | left hand, with its every finger, sports with a several money-bag.
498 II, 2 | warily, possesses no safe and firm security; whereas he who
499 I, 6 | round excrescence of the fish. Some say, too, that gems
500 II, 8 | down all over the body; to fix (each particular hair) in