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501 II, 6 | for themselves with their flame-coloured head, and think that graceful
502 I, 1intro| gleamed, and onyx-stones flashed; if gold itself also had
503 II, 10 | not, as the Gentiles do, flatter ourselves with thinking
504 II, 13 | plenitude to be, that it may flow out from the mind to the
505 II, 7 | to let it hang loose and flying; not with good simplicity:
506 II, 5 | desire nothing from the foes of their own general; for,
507 I, 8 | it does not immediately follow that such ways of enjoying
508 II, 6 | from Wisdom's daughters be folly so great! The more old age
509 I, 1intro| are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first
510 I, 6 | gems are culled from the foreheads of dragons, just as in the
511 I, 9 | desired:(desired) among foreigners, as being rarities; neglected (
512 II, 10 | Now, granting that God did foresee these things; that God permitted
513 I, 9 | delicate neck carries about it forests and islands. The slender
514 I, 5 | of mines, and needing a forging process in every use (to
515 | former
516 | formerly
517 II, 1intro| should be offended, and quite forsake the polluted abode. But
518 II, 13 | adored by them who were forsaking God. Even then (we find)
519 I, 4 | discussion) you may look forward and see what, out of (all)
520 I, 5 | to make utensils even for foul purposes. At all events,
521 II, 11 | been made more wealthy; and fouler, from the time when you
522 | found
523 II, 2 | runs more risk. Fear is the foundation of salvation; presumption
524 I, 6 | necessary either for laying down foundations, or rearing party-walls,
525 I, 8 | to attach himself to the frenzies of the racecourse, or the
526 II, 11 | requirements of Gentile friendships and of kindly offices call
527 I, 9 | among its own home-folk, is frigid. But, however, the rareness
528 II, 8 | these things are rejected as frivolous, as hostile to modesty.
529 II, 3 | because properly the use and fruit of beauty is voluptuousness,
530 I, 9 | thereby) they might add fuel to themselves also; for
531 I, 5 | fire behind it, that, as a fugitive from the mine, it passes
532 II, 9 | how will you be able to fulfil (the requirements of) humility,
533 II, 13 | provided it be true and full, loves not darkness: it
534 I, 1intro| penitence she might the more fully expiate that which she derives
535 I, 1intro| to swell the pomp of her funeral.~
536 I, 2 | consistency do we mount that (future) judgment-seat to pronounce
537 II, 9 | meretricious and prostitutionary garbs and garments: and, in the
538 I, 1intro| too. You are the devil's gateway: you are the unsealer of
539 II, 12 | her as such). Whence we gather an additional confirmation
540 II, 11 | sake of all these public gatherings, and of much seeing and
541 II, 6 | assign them to Germany and to Gaul: thus, as it is, they transfer
542 II, 6 | procreation did not assign them to Germany and to Gaul: thus, as it
543 I, 6 | sea-snail, but--even the giant muscle. For let me add that
544 I, 2 | sentence against those whose gifts we (now) seek after? For
545 I, 6 | supporting pediments, or giving density to roofs? The only
546 I, 1intro| would have desired too gladsome (not to say too ostentatious)
547 II, 2 | equally dangerous to the glances of (the beholder's) eyes.
548 I, 1intro| with the loom, and pearls gleamed, and onyx-stones flashed;
549 I, 5 | itself is) plainly more glorious (than they), inasmuch as
550 I, 5 | silver. No mattock plunges a golden edge into the ground; no
551 II, 2 | art, as being a kind of goodly garment of the soul; yet
552 II, 9 | compel to appear in public so gorgeously arrayed as not to appear
553 II, 6 | flame-coloured head, and think that graceful which (in fact) they are
554 I, 4 | what they call "womanly gracing;" by "ornament," what it
555 II, 10 | know not what (precious) grains, which, as we may plainly
556 II, 11 | appearing in public in excessive grandeur, removed as you are from
557 II, 3 | VAINGLORIOUS.~Let it now be granted that excellence of form
558 I, 2 | appear sordid and--through gratuitous use--contumelious, if they
559 I, 3 | tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather's "grace in the sight of
560 I, 3 | survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch himself; and he,
561 I, 9 | concupiscence becomes proportionably greater as it has set a higher value
562 II, 2 | father of the faith, Abraham, greatly feared in regard of his
563 II, 13 | bracelet will endure till it grow into the numb hardness of
564 II, 6 | imparting to the hair at once growth and dryness, is hurtful.
565 II, 1intro| those who know not God, the Guardian and Master of truth, there
566 I, 1intro| yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too.
567 II, 13 | to be squeezed into the gyve! I fear the neck, beset
568 I, 4 | eagerly desired. Female habit carries with it a twofold
569 I, 4 | all) these, is suitable, handmaid of God, to your discipline,
570 II, 13 | enough adorned. Busy your hands with spinning; keep your
571 I, 8 | violet-coloured and the grand royal hangings, which you laboriously undo
572 I, 7 | belts; and the sword (that hangs) below their bosom alone
573 II, 2 | censured, as being a bodily happiness, as being an additional
574 I, 6 | be understood than some hard, round excrescence of the
575 II, 1intro| dissimulation, have the hardihood so to walk as if modesty
576 II, 13 | till it grow into the numb hardness of its own chain! I know
577 II, 6 | moisture, lays up a store of harm for the head; while the
578 II, 3 | that there is some other harvest for bodily grace to reap.
579 II, 6 | toward the Lord; well do you hasten to be quit of this most
580 II, 13 | of Israel. You ought to hate what mined your fathers;
581 II, 4 | person, she will incur the hatred and aversion of husbands.
582 I, 6 | be which vie with gold in haughtiness, except little pebbles and
583 II, 10 | cautiously shall we act, if we hazard the presumption that all
584 II, 7 | and in all that parade of headgear: whether it will be women
585 II, 6 | Shall a Christian woman heap saffron on her head, as
586 I, 6 | devil's head," while she heaps ornaments (taken) from his
587 I, 3 | and he, of course, had heard and remembered, from domestic
588 II, 13 | is the inspector of the heart." (That) we all know; provided,
589 I, 2 | had fallen, and, after the heated impulses of their lusts,
590 II, 13 | earthly ornaments if we desire heavenly. Love not gold; in which (
591 II, 10 | themselves), were to be heavy in price alone; God who
592 I, 6 | thus that she will set her heel on the devil's head," while
593 II, 7 | below (the level of) your heels! I shall (then) see whether
594 I, 7 | native limits they are not held of so high worth. Abundance
595 II, 7 | perchance and destined to hell. Nay, rather banish quite
596 II, 7 | now, after the manner of a helmet of undressed hide, as it
597 I, 5 | which they are put), are helpless without the laborious vigour
598 | hereafter
599 I, 3 | from domestic renown and hereditary tradition, concerning his
600 II, 12 | and thus, because she was hidden beneath her "veil,"--the
601 I, 9 | greater as it has set a higher value upon the thing which
602 I, 7 | stones that decorate its hilt; and the massive single
603 II, 8 | the hair, and disguise its hoariness by dyes; to remove all the
604 II, 1intro| with evil even what they do hold fast. Necessary it is that
605 II, 1intro| look to it, who, by not holding fast the whole good, easily
606 I, 8 | VIII. THE SAME RULE HOLDS WITH REGARD TO COLOURS.
607 II, 2 | ought indeed to walk so holily, and with so entire substantiality
608 II, 13 | uprightness, the fine linen of holiness, the purple of modesty.
609 II, 13 | spinning; keep your feet at home; and you will "please" better
610 I, 9 | glory which, among its own home-folk, is frigid. But, however,
611 II, 6 | unless it is applied for honest, and necessary, and salutary
612 II, 10 | whether (they will do so) with honesty, or with moderation? But
613 I, 5 | embellishments, from ignominies to honours. But iron, and brass, and
614 II, 12 | thing from which I am averse hoped for in me? Why does not
615 I, 8 | God has given to man the horse, and the panther, and the
616 II, 8 | rejected as frivolous, as hostile to modesty. For where God
617 II, 13 | from simplicity, your ruddy hue from modesty; painting your
618 II, 10 | juices of herbs and the humours of conchs! It had escaped
619 II, 6 | once growth and dryness, is hurtful. What "grace" is compatible
620 I, 4 | carries with it a twofold idea--dress and ornament. By "
621 I, 5 | splendour, must necessarily be identical (in nature) with that out
622 II, 3 | modesty is, there beauty is idle; because properly the use
623 I, 5 | to embellishments, from ignominies to honours. But iron, and
624 II, 1intro| all), either from simple ignorance or else from dissimulation,
625 I, 2 | when to an age much more ignorant (than ours) they had disclosed
626 I, 8 | derive from adulteration with illegitimate colours? That which He Himself
627 I, 1intro| destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your
628 I, 1intro| coveted these things, I imagine! No more, then, ought she
629 I, 9 | educed another vice--that of immoderate having; because although,
630 II, 6 | warmth, too, so desirable for imparting to the hair at once growth
631 II, 2 | salvation; presumption is an impediment to fear. More useful, then,
632 II, 1intro| is plain that it must be imperfect and undisciplined to such
633 II, 8 | the sake of men), there is implanted, by a defect of nature,
634 II, 13 | your mouth with silence; implanting in your ears the words of
635 II, 10 | who produced such grand implements of gold for confining or
636 II, 2 | interest and that of others is implicated in the studious pursuit
637 II, 2 | our neighbour? why do we import concupiscence into our neighbour?
638 I, 2 | But why was it of so much importance to show these things as
639 II, 13 | HARDSHIPS WHICH THEY MAY NOT IMPROBABLY BE CALLED TO SUFFER.~Perhaps
640 I, 2 | fallen, and, after the heated impulses of their lusts, looked up
641 II, 6 | injury?" What "beauty" with "impurities?" Shall a Christian woman
642 I, 4 | authors; let nothing be imputed to those angels besides
643 I, 8 | impunity either, because the incense, and the wine, and the fire
644 II, 8 | dyes; to remove all the incipient down all over the body;
645 I, 1intro| toward thine husband (is) thy inclination, and he lords It over thee."
646 II, 3 | exaltation. Now exaltation is incongruous for professors of humility
647 II, 6 | head ! Here we have an "incorruptibility" to "put on," with a view
648 II, 12 | at all events, the daily increasing depravity of the age has
649 II, 4 | of her person, she will incur the hatred and aversion
650 I, 6 | from the British or the Indian sea, it is a kind of conch
651 I, 7 | with whom, because gold is indigenous and plentiful, it is customary
652 I, 9 | distributed by God over certain individual lands, and some one particular
653 II, 4 | suspicion, just from that infamous opinion of us which the
654 II, 2 | himself aspersed with the infamy. Are we to paint ourselves
655 II, 10 | the tortures of innocent infancy, learning to suffer with
656 II, 12 | Else, (if you so do,) what inferiority would the poor unhappy victims
657 II, 11 | voluptuousness, or else of inflating "glory." You, however, have
658 II, 5 | on a divine work Satan's ingenuities, how criminal is it! Our
659 II, 1intro| for fear that the God who inhabits it should be offended, and
660 II, 9 | as it were, from its own inherent power. Those times of life,
661 II, 6 | to be quit of this most iniquitous world, to whom it is unsightly
662 II, 6 | grace" is compatible with "injury?" What "beauty" with "impurities?"
663 II, 13 | suited to retain faith as its inmate perpetually. For such delicacies
664 II, 10 | work and the tortures of innocent infancy, learning to suffer
665 I, 8 | so too). It is matter for inquiry not only whence come conchs,
666 I, 5 | made out of brass. Let the insane plenteousness of gold and
667 II, 3 | all "glory" is "vain" and insensate, how much more (glory) in
668 II, 10 | plainly see, the Parthians insert, in place of studs, upon
669 II, 13 | testimony of men: God is the inspector of the heart." (That) we
670 I, 3 | renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration, after it had been destroyed
671 I, 3 | edification is divinely inspired. By the yews it may now
672 II, 2 | temptations, which, by their instancy, sometimes achieve (a wickedness)
673 | instead
674 II, 10 | them, among their other (instructions), in (the virtues of) eyelid-powder
675 II, 2 | sister, purchased safety by insult!~
676 II, 2 | therefore, both our own interest and that of others is implicated
677 II, 9 | voluptuousness, and how they interfere with modesty, is easily
678 I, 6 | conch suffers from some internal pustule, that ought to be
679 I, 6 | next place, what am I to interpret those jewels to be which
680 I, 2 | curious art, even to the interpretation of the stars--they conferred
681 I, 9 | too, its name is to be interpreted, in that from concupiscence
682 II, 9 | pomps and delicacies? How intimate is the connection which
683 II, 10 | true is it that it is not intrinsic worth, but rarity, which
684 II, 13 | TIMES OF PERSECUTION WE MUST INURE OUR BODIES TO THE HARDSHIPS
685 II, 12 | attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined with and appropriate
686 II, 9 | divine discipline, but to invest all the other parts of the
687 II, 2 | that evil (passion)? why invite (that) to which you profess
688 II, 2 | know to be naturally the inviter of lust) a mean of pleasing
689 II, 2 | his own wife's grace; and Isaac, by falsely representing
690 I, 9 | carries about it forests and islands. The slender lobes of the
691 II, 13 | the sins of the people of Israel. You ought to hate what
692 II, 10 | universe to come into being, to issue a command for (the production
693 I, 1intro| itself also had already issued, with the cupidity (which
694 I, 3 | after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming
695 II, 10 | material substances themselves, joined with their rarity, excited
696 II, 13 | loves not darkness: it joys in being seen, and exults
697 II, 12 | adorned herself" that led Judah to regard her as a harlot,
698 I, 3 | testimony in the Apostle Jude.~
699 I, 2 | their things with their judges? What commerce have they
700 I, 2 | advancement to the dignity of judging, does (the Lord) promise
701 I, 2 | do we mount that (future) judgment-seat to pronounce sentence against
702 II, 10 | way to dye wools with the juices of herbs and the humours
703 I, 5 | powers, in the service of juster causes. For not only are
704 II, 11 | Gentile friendships and of kindly offices call you, why not
705 II, 9 | eunuchhood for the sake of the kingdom of God, spontaneously relinquishing
706 I, 5 | penal labour in the deadly laboratories of accursed mines, and there
707 I, 5 | are helpless without the laborious vigour of iron and brass.
708 I, 8 | royal hangings, which you laboriously undo and metamorphose. Purple
709 II, 3 | be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's sake, in order
710 I, 7 | chained with gold, and to lade the wicked with riches--
711 II, 13 | sunk down? If you hide your lamp beneath a bushel, you must
712 I, 9 | over certain individual lands, and some one particular
713 I, 1intro| already had licence to lie so largely, Eve, expelled from paradise, (
714 II, 12 | you)? whom, albeit some laws were (formerly) wont to
715 I, 4 | eye. Against the one we lay the charge of ambition,
716 I, 6 | not necessary either for laying down foundations, or rearing
717 II, 6 | any undrugged moisture, lays up a store of harm for the
718 II, 2 | cannot; for apprehending will lead us to fear, fearing to caution,
719 I, 1intro| first "known the Lord," and learned (the truth) concerning her
720 II, 10 | tortures of innocent infancy, learning to suffer with its earliest
721 II, 12 | and adorned herself" that led Judah to regard her as a
722 II, 13 | I know not whether the leg that has rejoiced in the
723 I, 8 | and justly,) for what legitimate honour can garments derive
724 II, 12 | additional confirmation of the lesson, that provision must be
725 II, 9 | temper an evil of this kind; lest, under the pretext of necessity,
726 II, 7 | even though below (the level of) your heels! I shall (
727 II, 1intro| allows itself to relax into licentious extravagances of attire;
728 II, 3 | wherein our sphere of labour lies, let our joy lie. From the
729 I, 7 | their boots are fain to get lifted out of the mud! In short,
730 I, 7 | within their own native limits they are not held of so
731 II, 5 | in your own persons His lineaments?~
732 II, 13 | of uprightness, the fine linen of holiness, the purple
733 I, 6 | gold in haughtiness, except little pebbles and stones and paltry
734 II, 6 | such as repent of having lived to old age do attempt to
735 I, 1intro| God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must
736 I, 9 | and islands. The slender lobes of the ears exhaust a fortune;
737 I, 9 | there is no such fervid longing for a glory which, among
738 I, 2 | impulses of their lusts, looked up toward heaven, thus requited
739 I, 1intro| the Babylonians with the loom, and pearls gleamed, and
740 II, 7 | curls, some to let it hang loose and flying; not with good
741 II, 7 | which must now be bound, now loosed, now cultivated, now thinned
742 I, 1intro| thy inclination, and he lords It over thee." And do you
743 II, 5 | he will be his in whose lore he eagerly desires to be
744 I, 7 | prevent even gold from being loved! We have also seen at Rome
745 II, 13 | you will have God as your Lover!~ ~
746 II, 13 | provided it be true and full, loves not darkness: it joys in
747 II, 9 | also, and all the remaining lumber of your self-elaboration,
748 II, 13 | The things which make us luminaries of the world are these--
749 II, 9 | splendour and dignity of dress lure away (from that rest and
750 I, 7 | to ostentation. Emeralds lurk in their belts; and the
751 II, 10 | charms--of gold, I mean, and lustrous stones--and taught men how
752 II, 13 | feel them; let us abandon luxuries, and we shall not regret
753 II, 9 | parts of the body with the luxurious absurdities of pomps and
754 II, 5 | appearance, (you,) to whom (lying) with the tongue is not
755 | MAKES
756 II, 2 | first, because the study of making personal grace (which we
757 II, 13 | what purpose, except that malice may have no access at all
758 II, 13 | effeminacy to unman the manliness of faith are to be discarded.
759 II, 7 | of all the most skilful manufacturers of false hair. God bids
760 II, 10 | devised by careful thought the manufactures of those very garments which,
761 I, 4 | heaven and (their) carnal marriage: let us examine the qualities
762 II, 13 | but in iron: the stoles of martyrdom are (now) preparing: the
763 II, 7 | covering for the crown; now, a mass (drawn) backward toward
764 I, 7 | decorate its hilt; and the massive single pearls on their boots
765 II, 1intro| not God, the Guardian and Master of truth, there is nothing
766 I, 2 | be called teachings, ill masters must of necessity have taught
767 I, 2 | forsooth, made a grand match! Assuredly they who, of
768 I, 5 | brass; whereas those rich materials themselves, requiring both
769 II, 12 | restrain them from (the use of) matrimonial and matronly decorations,
770 II, 12 | use of) matrimonial and matronly decorations, now, at all
771 I, 7 | blushing in the presence of our matrons at the contemptuous usage
772 II, 1intro| sufficient; but about the matters which pertain to it, that
773 I, 5 | the strength of silver. No mattock plunges a golden edge into
774 II, 1intro| enjoy with you--I, the most meanest in that right of fellow-servantship
775 I, 1intro| garb, and rather to affect meanness of appearance, walking about
776 | meantime
777 II, 5 | limit and norm and just measure of cultivation of the person.
778 I, 7 | usage of the Parthians and Medes, and the rest of their own
779 II, 13 | blessed (sisters), let us meditate on hardships, and we shall
780 II, 1intro| women only, but likewise of men--consists in the exhibition
781 II, 2 | after your beauty, and has mentally already committed (the deed)
782 II, 2 | servants, may the Lord by His mercy take care that to them it
783 II, 12 | and very many waters, has merited from the Lord the appellation
784 I, 4 | THE THINGS ON THEIR OWN MERITS.~Grant now that no mark
785 II, 9 | the ends of the ages have met, having ended their course."
786 I, 5 | as to earthly origin and metallurgic operation; in order that,
787 I, 2 | laid bare the operations of metallurgy, and had divulged the natural
788 I, 5 | ORIGIN OR IN UTILITY TO OTHER METALS.~Gold and silver, the principal
789 I, 8 | you laboriously undo and metamorphose. Purple with them is more
790 I, 3 | given no other charge to Methuselah than that he should hand
791 II, 13 | we do not shine in (the midst of) darkness, and stand
792 II, 5 | practise adultery in your mien, (you,) who make modesty
793 I, 1intro| beginning of the world the Milesians sheared sheep, and the Serians
794 | million
795 I, 5 | as a fugitive from the mine, it passes from torments
796 II, 13 | You ought to hate what mined your fathers; what was adored
797 II, 1intro| fast the whole good, easily mingle with evil even what they
798 II, 8 | opportunity for consulting the minor; to gaze anxiously into
799 I, 1intro| from the ground; if the mirror, too, already had licence
800 II, 7 | Christian exultation, I, most miserable (as I am), may elevate my
801 II, 10 | so) with honesty, or with moderation? But how far more praiseworthy (
802 II, 1intro| practice familiar to Gentile modesty--(namely,) not actually to
803 II, 6 | application of even any undrugged moisture, lays up a store of harm
804 II, 6 | the Lord which the divine monarchy promises! Well do you speed
805 I, 9 | finger, sports with a several money-bag. Such is the strength of
806 I, 2 | With what consistency do we mount that (future) judgment-seat
807 II, 13 | us to a city built upon a mountain; if we do not shine in (
808 II, 12 | presides over the seven mountains and very many waters, has
809 I, 1intro| appearance, walking about as Eve mourning and repentant, in order
810 I, 2 | say--crude and rude, had moved (the mind of) angels? or
811 I, 7 | to get lifted out of the mud! In short, they carry nothing
812 I, 6 | sea-snail, but--even the giant muscle. For let me add that I know
813 I, 6 | because they) render to gold a mutual assistance in meretricious
814 I, 9 | particular tract of sea, are mutually foreign one to the other,
815 I, 5 | edge into the ground; no nail drives a silver point into
816 II, 6 | ashamed even of their own nation, (ashamed) that their procreation
817 I, 2 | radiances of jewels wherewith necklaces are variegated, and the
818 II, 1intro| fornication; and there were no need for anything extrinsic to
819 I, 5 | dug up out of mines, and needing a forging process in every
820 I, 1intro| Phrygians embroidered with the needle, and the Babylonians with
821 I, 5 | unnoticed the fact that the needs of our whole life are dependent
822 II, 3 | if you have it not, and neglect if you have. Let a holy
823 II, 2 | paint ourselves out that our neighbours may perish? Where, then,
824 | never
825 II, 6 | on," with a view to the new house of the Lord which
826 I, 7 | have also seen at Rome the nobility of gems blushing in the
827 I, 5 | be judged not a whit more noble (than theirs). But if it
828 II, 13 | beset with pearl and emerald nooses, will give no room to the
829 II, 5 | slovenliness; but of the limit and norm and just measure of cultivation
830 II, 13 | endure till it grow into the numb hardness of its own chain!
831 I, 5 | functions of their own more numerous and more necessary to human
832 II, 6 | even from white to black! O temerity! The age which
833 II, 2 | even natural grace must be obliterated by concealment and negligence,
834 II, 3 | her beauty), but even to obscure it.~
835 II, 11 | removed as you are from the occasions which call for such exhibitions?
836 I, 8 | is more paltry than red ochre; (and justly,) for what
837 II, 1intro| who inhabits it should be offended, and quite forsake the polluted
838 I, 2 | themselves, might become offensive to God. Sure they were that
839 II, 10 | heads of families purposely offer and permit some things to
840 II, 11 | or else the sacrifice is offered, or else the word of God
841 II, 11 | friendships and of kindly offices call you, why not go forth
842 II, 7 | some should be seen! And oh that in "that day" of Christian
843 I, 1intro| and pearls gleamed, and onyx-stones flashed; if gold itself
844 I, 5 | earthly origin and metallurgic operation; in order that, in the estimation
845 I, 2 | that they had laid bare the operations of metallurgy, and had divulged
846 II, 4 | just from that infamous opinion of us which the Gentiles
847 I, 2 | and the medicaments of orchil with which wools are coloured,
848 I, 9 | possessions which God has ordered as He willed, ever finding
849 I, 1intro| gladsome (not to say too ostentatious) a style of dress; so as
850 II, 2 | MUST LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR AS OURSELF.~You must know that in the
851 II, 2 | as being an additional outlay of the divine plastic art,
852 II, 13 | appearance; so that even from the outside it may gaze, as it were,
853 II, 5 | person. There must be no overstepping of that line to which simple
854 I, 6 | savour than--I do not say the oyster and the sea-snail, but--
855 II, 2 | that not merely must the pageantry of fictitious and elaborate
856 I, 1intro| of human perdition. "In pains and in anxieties dost thou
857 II, 2 | with the infamy. Are we to paint ourselves out that our neighbours
858 II, 13 | to be surrounded with the palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till
859 I, 8 | to man the horse, and the panther, and the power of speech:
860 II, 7 | saffron, and in all that parade of headgear: whether it
861 I, 1intro| largely, Eve, expelled from paradise, (Eve) already dead, would
862 I, 5 | material substances, enjoy a parity of condition (with silver
863 I, 6 | pebbles and stones and paltry particles of the self-same earth;
864 II, 10 | of gold for confining or parting the hair; God who introduced (
865 II, 13 | and now more than ever, pass their times not in gold
866 I, 5 | fugitive from the mine, it passes from torments to ornaments,
867 II, 9 | fashion of this world is passing away." And "they who buy
868 II, 9 | of riches, or birth, or past dignities, compel to appear
869 I, 9 | caskets is produced an ample patrimony. On a single thread is suspended
870 II, 1intro| course, of affection, but paving the way for affection in
871 I, 6 | haughtiness, except little pebbles and stones and paltry particles
872 I, 6 | party-walls, or supporting pediments, or giving density to roofs?
873 I, 5 | been tearfully wrought by penal labour in the deadly laboratories
874 I, 1intro| order that by every garb of penitence she might the more fully
875 II, 13 | branded all the sins of the people of Israel. You ought to
876 II, 6 | veritable eternity, in the (perennial) youth of your head ! Here
877 II, 9 | of which border upon no peril or solicitude; but they
878 II, 2 | that our neighbours may perish? Where, then, is (the command), "
879 II, 2 | concupiscence pointed to, perishes; and you have been made
880 I, 9 | perhaps, having may be permissible, still a limit is bound (
881 II, 13 | retain faith as its inmate perpetually. For such delicacies as
882 II, 13 | ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES OF PERSECUTION WE MUST INURE OUR BODIES
883 II, 5 | appearance; nor are we seeking to persuade you of the good of squalor
884 I, 1intro| divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not
885 II, 1intro| about the matters which pertain to it, that is, the manner
886 I, 3 | be rejected by us which pertains to us; and we read that "
887 II, 7 | enormities of subtle and textile perukes; now, after the manner of
888 II, 1intro| which are not God's are perverse. Let those women therefore
889 II, 1intro| accordance with Gentile perversity, in craving after that of
890 I, 1intro| the Tyrians dyed, and the Phrygians embroidered with the needle,
891 I, 6 | to advantage, and careful piercing that they may hang; and (
892 II, 8 | place with (some) womanly pigment; to smooth all the rest
893 II, 5 | APPEARANCE LAWFUL, SOME UNLAWFUL. PIGMENTS COME UNDER THE LATTER HEAD.~
894 II, 7 | or shield-bosses, to be piled upon your necks! If you
895 II, 10 | provided at the beginning and placed in the world by God, in
896 I, 5 | drives a silver point into planks. I leave unnoticed the fact
897 II, 5 | God. Whatever, then, is plastered on (that), is the devil'
898 II, 4 | IV. CONCERNING THE PLEA OF "PLEASING THE HUSBAND."~
899 II, 4 | to her own husband. She "pleased" him enough when she was
900 I, 8 | beauty. For all those profane pleasures of worldly shows--as we
901 II, 13 | For so great ought its plenitude to be, that it may flow
902 I, 5 | of brass. Let the insane plenteousness of gold and silver look
903 I, 7 | because gold is indigenous and plentiful, it is customary to keep (
904 II, 8 | the beard too sharply; to pluck it out here and there; to
905 I, 5 | strength of silver. No mattock plunges a golden edge into the ground;
906 II, 2 | which his concupiscence pointed to, perishes; and you have
907 II, 13 | and exults over the very pointings which are made at it. To
908 II, 1intro| offended, and quite forsake the polluted abode. But on the present
909 II, 6 | which (in fact) they are polluting! Nay, moreover, the force
910 II, 7 | enormity, feel some at the pollution; for fear you may be fitting
911 II, 12 | what inferiority would the poor unhappy victims of the public
912 I, 3 | just like all the other (portions) nearly which tell of Christ.
913 I, 9 | of that distribution of possessions which God has ordered as
914 II, 3 | neither troublesome to its possessors, nor destructive to its
915 II, 2 | to apprehend that we may possibly fail, than to presume that
916 I, 3 | knowledge of them to his posterity. Noah therefore, no doubt,
917 II, 1intro| granting that even this is a practice familiar to Gentile modesty--(
918 II, 3 | may (we) not enjoy the praise of beauty alone, and glory
919 II, 10 | moderation? But how far more praiseworthy (the servant) who abstains
920 II, 6 | object of our wishes and prayers blushes (for itself)! a
921 II, 12 | me? Why does not my garb pre-announce my character, to prevent
922 I, 4 | Grant now that no mark of pre-condemnation has been branded on womanly
923 I, 2 | even here to prejudge, by pre-condemning their things, which we are
924 I, 3 | in the same Scripture has preached likewise concerning the
925 I, 3 | the trusteeship of (his) preaching; or, had the case been otherwise,
926 I, 3 | and concerning all his preachings; since Enoch had given no
927 I, 5 | and silver, since they get precedence over material substances
928 II, 9 | their course." We have been predestined by God, before the world
929 I, 2 | then, we begin even here to prejudge, by pre-condemning their
930 II, 9 | Because he had laid down the premiss, saying, "The time is wound
931 II, 13 | stoles of martyrdom are (now) preparing: the angels who are to carry
932 II, 7 | contending against the Lord's prescripts! It has been pronounced
933 II, 2 | into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (to it).
934 I, 3 | things) made by God, his Preserver, and concerning the particular
935 I, 5 | memory of antiquity still preserves (the fame of) certain vessels
936 II, 12 | That powerful state which presides over the seven mountains
937 II, 1intro| the divine precepts which press (upon us) on every side
938 II, 2 | that it will). For he who presumes feels less apprehension;
939 II, 2 | in us to the end, yet not presuming (that it will). For he who
940 II, 9 | this kind; lest, under the pretext of necessity, you give the
941 I, 9 | OTHERWISE WE BECOME THE PREY OF AMBITION AND ITS ATTENDANT
942 II, 10 | themselves), were to be heavy in price alone; God who produced
943 I, 6 | how to rear is this silly pride of women: because they require
944 II, 1intro| Modesty is the sacristan and priestess of that temple, who is to
945 II, 12 | who are called modesty's priestesses, should appear in public
946 I, 5 | METALS.~Gold and silver, the principal material causes of worldly
947 II, 1intro| consists in the exhibition principally of modesty. For since, by
948 II, 13 | through the apostle: "Let your probity appear before men." For
949 I, 5 | mines, and needing a forging process in every use (to which they
950 II, 6 | nation, (ashamed) that their procreation did not assign them to Germany
951 I, 9 | and that a woman's, the product of so copious wealth:~
952 II, 10 | issue a command for (the production of) purple and scarlet sheep!
953 II, 5 | from your schoolings and professions are (these things)! How
954 II, 3 | exaltation is incongruous for professors of humility according to
955 I, 2 | their good fortune might profit them nothing; but that,
956 II, 9 | Are there not some who prohibit to themselves (the use of)
957 II, 9 | use what is our own?" Who prohibits your using it? Yet (it must
958 I, 2 | judging, does (the Lord) promise you. Unless, then, we begin
959 I, 2 | self-same angelic nature promised as your reward, the self-same
960 II, 6 | which the divine monarchy promises! Well do you speed toward
961 I, 2 | properties of herbs, and had promulgated the powers of enchantments,
962 I, 2 | future) judgment-seat to pronounce sentence against those whose
963 II, 7 | prescripts! It has been pronounced that no one can add to his
964 II, 10 | means of putting to the proof the discipline of His servants,
965 I, 2 | had divulged the natural properties of herbs, and had promulgated
966 I, 3 | THE GENUINENESS OF "THE PROPHECY OF ENOCH."~I am aware that
967 II, 13 | cosmetics and ornaments of prophets and apostles; drawing your
968 II, 4 | you will please them in proportion as you take no care to please
969 I, 9 | for concupiscence becomes proportionably greater as it has set a
970 I, 4 | THE AUTHORS, TERTULLIAN PROPOSES TO CONSIDER THE THINGS ON
971 II, 9 | your use meretricious and prostitutionary garbs and garments: and,
972 I, 2 | natural beauty, as (having proved) a cause of evil, in order
973 II, 6 | which God's creature was provided--may seem to be a sacrifice.
974 II, 12 | confirmation of the lesson, that provision must be made in every way.
975 II, 10 | on these accounts, have provoked the anger and the vengeance
976 II, 9 | self-elaboration, the like pruning off and retrenchment of
977 I, 5 | torments to ornaments, from punishments to embellishments, from
978 II, 2 | representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased safety by insult!~
979 II, 7 | flesh and spirit sole and pure. Whatever, therefore, does
980 II, 10 | not wise heads of families purposely offer and permit some things
981 I, 6 | suffers from some internal pustule, that ought to be regarded
982 II, 10 | there should now be means of putting to the proof the discipline
983 I, 4 | marriage: let us examine the qualities of the things themselves,
984 I, 2 | connection with them? But these questions admit of no calculation.
985 II, 9 | which are at last blest with quiet and withdrawn into the harbour
986 II, 6 | well do you hasten to be quit of this most iniquitous
987 II, 10 | you away, serves a certain race (so Gentile literature.
988 I, 8 | himself to the frenzies of the racecourse, or the atrocities of the
989 I, 2 | womanly ostentation, the radiances of jewels wherewith necklaces
990 II, 12 | depravity of the age has raised so nearly to an equality
991 I, 9 | frigid. But, however, the rareness and outlandishness which
992 I, 9 | among foreigners, as being rarities; neglected (rightly), if
993 I, 3 | which pertains to us; and we read that "every Scripture suitable
994 II, 13 | regret them. Let us stand ready to endure every violence,
995 I, 7 | wealthy. At last there has really been found a way to prevent
996 II, 3 | harvest for bodily grace to reap. Are women who think that,
997 I, 6 | edifice which they know how to rear is this silly pride of women:
998 I, 6 | laying down foundations, or rearing party-walls, or supporting
999 I, 2 | these, of course, are the reasons why they have deserved to
1000 II, 2 | by falsely representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased