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1001 I, 3 | rejecting it), let them recall to their memory that Noah,
1002 I, 3 | action) to angels, is not received by some, because it is not
1003 II, 9 | of your dowries, before (receiving) the knowledge of saving
1004 I, 9 | one to the other, they are reciprocally either neglected or desired:(
1005 II, 7 | rising bodies, and will recognise their several places. But
1006 I, 9 | which (as we have said) is recommended neither by nature nor by
1007 I, 8 | them is more paltry than red ochre; (and justly,) for
1008 II, 9 | and retrenchment of too redundant splendour must be the object
1009 II, 10 | X. TERTULLIAN REFERS AGAIN TO THE QUESTION OF
1010 II, 12 | Scriptures suggest (to us the reflection), that meretricious attractivenesses
1011 II, 1intro| yet still not quite to refuse--what wonder? for all things
1012 II, 6 | black a white?" And so they refute the Lord! "Behold!" say
1013 I, 6 | pustule, that ought to be regarded rather as its defect than
1014 II, 4 | on the other hand, even regards with suspicion, just from
1015 II, 13 | luxuries, and we shall not regret them. Let us stand ready
1016 I, 9 | GOD'S DISTRIBUTION MUST REGULATE OUR DESIRES, OTHERWISE WE
1017 II, 9 | necessity, you give the rein without stint to the indulgence
1018 I, 3 | that is the reason (for rejecting it), let them recall to
1019 II, 13 | whether the leg that has rejoiced in the anklet will suffer
1020 II, 1intro| it yet allows itself to relax into licentious extravagances
1021 II, 9 | kingdom of God, spontaneously relinquishing a pleasure so honourable,
1022 II, 9 | clothing also, and all the remaining lumber of your self-elaboration,
1023 II, 8 | NOT EXCLUDED FROM THESE REMARKS ON PERSONAL ADORNMENT.~Of
1024 II, 13 | know; provided, however, we remember what the same (God) has
1025 I, 3 | of course, had heard and remembered, from domestic renown and
1026 II, 8 | its hoariness by dyes; to remove all the incipient down all
1027 II, 11 | public in excessive grandeur, removed as you are from the occasions
1028 I, 2 | anything conducive to chastity, renegade spirits anything conducive
1029 I, 3 | Scripture: he could equally have renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration,
1030 I, 2 | angels whom in baptism we renounce: these, of course, are the
1031 I, 3 | remembered, from domestic renown and hereditary tradition,
1032 II, 6 | grace." And yet such as repent of having lived to old age
1033 I, 1intro| about as Eve mourning and repentant, in order that by every
1034 II, 2 | grace; and Isaac, by falsely representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased
1035 II, 10 | with no garment of purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped
1036 II, 10 | purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped neck
1037 I, 4 | those angels besides their repudiation of heaven and (their) carnal
1038 I, 2 | looked up toward heaven, thus requited that very excellence of
1039 II, 8 | too, some things which, in respect of the sobriety we are to
1040 I, 3 | generally agreed to have been restored through Ezra. But since
1041 II, 12 | were (formerly) wont to restrain them from (the use of) matrimonial
1042 II, 13 | such as to be suited to retain faith as its inmate perpetually.
1043 II, 13 | which are the bonds which retard our hope. Let us cast away
1044 II, 9 | the like pruning off and retrenchment of too redundant splendour
1045 II, 10 | sinful angels, who were the revealers withal of the material substances
1046 II, 10 | what is unlawful who has a reverent dread of what is lawful?~
1047 I, 5 | and brass; whereas those rich materials themselves, requiring
1048 I, 7 | to lade the wicked with riches--the more guilty, the more
1049 I, 7 | short, they carry nothing so richly gemmed as that which ought
1050 I, 9 | being rarities; neglected (rightly), if anywhere, among their
1051 I, 5 | causes. For not only are rings made of iron, but the memory
1052 II, 7 | present themselves to the rising bodies, and will recognise
1053 II, 2 | less precaution runs more risk. Fear is the foundation
1054 II, 2 | attaching to it); as, when a robbery has been committed on some
1055 II, 7 | your weight some kind of rolls, or shield-bosses, to be
1056 I, 7 | loved! We have also seen at Rome the nobility of gems blushing
1057 I, 6 | pediments, or giving density to roofs? The only edifice which
1058 II, 13 | emerald nooses, will give no room to the broadsword! Wherefore,
1059 II, 8 | body by the aid of some rough powder or other: then, further,
1060 I, 3 | conservative power) by so short a route, there would (still) be
1061 I, 8 | violet-coloured and the grand royal hangings, which you laboriously
1062 II, 5 | pleasing to God. For they who rub their skin with medicaments,
1063 I, 6 | because they require slow rubbing that they may shine, and
1064 II, 13 | whiteness from simplicity, your ruddy hue from modesty; painting
1065 I, 2 | and--so to say--crude and rude, had moved (the mind of)
1066 II, 6 | force of the cosmetics burns ruin into the hair; and the constant
1067 I, 8 | VIII. THE SAME RULE HOLDS WITH REGARD TO COLOURS.
1068 II, 13 | quite in darkness, and be run against by many. The things
1069 II, 2 | who takes less precaution runs more risk. Fear is the foundation
1070 I, 2 | those angels, to wit, who rushed from heaven on the daughters
1071 II, 1intro| of God," Modesty is the sacristan and priestess of that temple,
1072 II, 2 | time warily, possesses no safe and firm security; whereas
1073 I, 3 | the deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide
1074 II, 2 | as his sister, purchased safety by insult!~
1075 II, 6 | sacrifice. But, however, God saith, "Which of you can make
1076 II, 6 | honest, and necessary, and salutary uses, for which God's creature
1077 II, 1intro| of your salvation. That salvation--and not (the salvation)
1078 II, 11 | business of sobriety and sanctity, requiring no extraordinary
1079 II, 5 | superinduce on a divine work Satan's ingenuities, how criminal
1080 II, 2 | neither fear nor caution to save us. He who acts securely,
1081 II, 9 | receiving) the knowledge of saving disciplines. We are they "
1082 I, 6 | conch not more pleasing in savour than--I do not say the oyster
1083 I, 2 | and uncouth and--so to say--crude and rude, had moved (
1084 II, 9 | had laid down the premiss, saying, "The time is wound up."
1085 II, 10 | in order that from those scars of the body--born for the
1086 II, 9 | of) humility, which our (school) profess, if you do not
1087 II, 5 | But how alien from your schoolings and professions are (these
1088 I, 2 | several not well-revealed scientific arts--if it is true that
1089 I, 6 | not say the oyster and the sea-snail, but--even the giant muscle.
1090 II, 9 | withal, who so do, and seal themselves up to eunuchhood
1091 I, 9 | to be observed). This (second vice) will be ambition;
1092 II, 2 | to save us. He who acts securely, and not at the same time
1093 II, 2 | possesses no safe and firm security; whereas he who is wary
1094 II, 9 | disquiet seriousness by seductions of appetite, which compensate
1095 II, 11 | gatherings, and of much seeing and being seen, that all
1096 II, 5 | of appearance; nor are we seeking to persuade you of the good
1097 II, 4 | him enough when she was selected (by him as his wife); whether
1098 II, 2 | carnal) desire of one's self (on the part of others)
1099 II, 9 | remaining lumber of your self-elaboration, the like pruning off and
1100 II, 9 | times, what would be his sentiments about these vain appliances
1101 I, 1intro| Milesians sheared sheep, and the Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians
1102 II, 11 | public, except such as is serious. Either some brother who
1103 I, 6 | grace to herself from the serpent! Is it thus that she will
1104 II, 10 | far more praiseworthy (the servant) who abstains entirely;
1105 I, 5 | but do also none the less serve the turn of gold and silver,
1106 I, 9 | is suspended a million of sesterces. One delicate neck carries
1107 II, 12 | which presides over the seven mountains and very many
1108 II, 7 | your necks! If you feel no shame at the enormity, feel some
1109 II, 12 | spirit from being wounded by shamelessness through (the channel of)
1110 II, 8 | as) to cut the beard too sharply; to pluck it out here and
1111 II, 8 | it out here and there; to shave round about (the mouth);
1112 I, 1intro| the world the Milesians sheared sheep, and the Serians spun
1113 II, 7 | undressed hide, as it were a sheath for the head and a covering
1114 II, 7 | weight some kind of rolls, or shield-bosses, to be piled upon your necks!
1115 I, 5 | by means of gold, nor the ship fastened together by the
1116 II, 10 | of studs, upon their very shoes! And yet even the gold itself,
1117 II, 10 | It was God, no doubt, who showed the way to dye wools with
1118 I, 8 | profane pleasures of worldly shows--as we have already published
1119 II, 1intro| that of which it carefully shuns the effect. How many a one,
1120 II, 3 | then, if voluptuousness be shut out and chastity let in,
1121 II, 11 | Either some brother who is sick is visited, or else the
1122 II, 1intro| press (upon us) on every side are sufficient; but about
1123 II, 6 | wherein we have sinned, is sighed after! the opportunity of
1124 II, 3 | it may draw the eyes and sighs of youths after it. Thus (
1125 I, 3 | great-grandfather's "grace in the sight of God," and concerning
1126 II, 13 | bashfulness, and your mouth with silence; implanting in your ears
1127 I, 3 | he would not have been silent alike concerning the disposition (
1128 II, 13 | Clothe yourselves with the silk of uprightness, the fine
1129 I, 6 | know how to rear is this silly pride of women: because
1130 I, 8 | WHICH HE HAS APPOINTED THEM.~Similarly, too, do even the servants
1131 I, 8 | turpitudes of the stage, simply because God has given to
1132 I, 2 | turned from simplicity and sincerity, they, together with (the
1133 II, 10 | introduced by the means of the sinful angels, who were the revealers
1134 II, 6 | youth, wherein we have sinned, is sighed after! the opportunity
1135 I, 2 | their teachers: in that sinners could never have either
1136 II, 13 | substance) are branded all the sins of the people of Israel.
1137 II, 2 | representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased safety by insult!~
1138 II, 12 | with that appellation? She sits, to be sure, "in purple,
1139 II, 7 | the aid of all the most skilful manufacturers of false hair.
1140 II, 5 | I suppose, the plastic skill of God is displeasing! In
1141 I, 1intro| and above your tunics of skins? Come, now; if from the
1142 I, 8 | be born with purple and sky-blue fleeces! If He was able,
1143 II, 7 | your "free" head all this slavery of ornamentation. In vain
1144 I, 9 | forests and islands. The slender lobes of the ears exhaust
1145 I, 8 | even their party-walls use slightingly, to supply the place of
1146 II, 7 | holy and Christian head the slough of some one else's head,
1147 II, 5 | the good of squalor and slovenliness; but of the limit and norm
1148 I, 6 | women: because they require slow rubbing that they may shine,
1149 I, 9 | equal) to bearing on one small body, and that a woman's,
1150 I, 9 | eagerly desired. From the smallest caskets is produced an ample
1151 II, 8 | some) womanly pigment; to smooth all the rest of the body
1152 II, 13 | delicacies as tend by their softness and effeminacy to unman
1153 II, 5 | from our personal enemies: soldiers eagerly desire nothing from
1154 II, 7 | except flesh and spirit sole and pure. Whatever, therefore,
1155 II, 9 | border upon no peril or solicitude; but they sacrifice to God
1156 | something
1157 I, 1intro| that is, death--even the Son of God had to die. And do
1158 II, 2 | other. For that other, as soon as he has felt concupiscence
1159 I, 2 | the lovers would appear sordid and--through gratuitous
1160 II, 2 | pleasing does not spring from a sound conscience: why therefore
1161 II, 2 | goodness! But why are we a (source of) danger to our neighbour?
1162 II, 3 | let our joy lie. From the sources whence we hope for salvation,
1163 I, 3 | receive some Scriptures which spake of Him whom even in person,
1164 II, 1intro| present occasion we (are to speak) not about modesty, for
1165 I, 8 | panther, and the power of speech: just as a Christian cannot
1166 II, 6 | monarchy promises! Well do you speed toward the Lord; well do
1167 II, 7 | again, does all the labour spent in arranging the hair render
1168 II, 13 | adorned. Busy your hands with spinning; keep your feet at home;
1169 I, 2 | conducive to chastity, renegade spirits anything conducive to the
1170 II, 6 | opportunity of sobriety is spoiled! Far from Wisdom's daughters
1171 II, 9 | sake of the kingdom of God, spontaneously relinquishing a pleasure
1172 I, 9 | with its every finger, sports with a several money-bag.
1173 II, 2 | mean of pleasing does not spring from a sound conscience:
1174 I, 1intro| sheared sheep, and the Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed,
1175 II, 5 | persuade you of the good of squalor and slovenliness; but of
1176 II, 13 | will suffer itself to be squeezed into the gyve! I fear the
1177 II, 5 | their skin with medicaments, stain their cheeks with rouge,
1178 I, 2 | the interpretation of the stars--they conferred properly
1179 II, 7 | no one can add to his own stature. You, however, do add to
1180 II, 10 | of the body--born for the steel!--should hang I know not
1181 II, 9 | you give the rein without stint to the indulgence of licence.
1182 II, 13 | in gold but in iron: the stoles of martyrdom are (now) preparing:
1183 II, 12 | and gold, and precious stone." How accursed are the things
1184 II, 10 | gold, I mean, and lustrous stones--and taught men how to work
1185 I, 6 | fishes there is a certain stony substance. This also was
1186 II, 6 | undrugged moisture, lays up a store of harm for the head; while
1187 I, 3 | Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document of
1188 II, 9 | not had, on account of the straits of the times, what would
1189 II, 2 | which you profess yourself a stranger? secondly, because we ought
1190 II, 3 | naturally) given them, and to strive after it when not (thus)
1191 II, 1intro| dress and ornament, the studied graces of form and brilliance:--
1192 II, 10 | Parthians insert, in place of studs, upon their very shoes!
1193 II, 2 | tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (to it). We ought indeed
1194 II, 3 | temptations, not surrounded by stumbling-blocks: it is enough that to angels
1195 II, 2 | to be (confined) to the subject immediately in hand merely,
1196 II, 13 | necks the yoke of Christ. Submit your head to your husbands,
1197 II, 2 | holily, and with so entire substantiality of faith, as to be confident
1198 II, 7 | know not what enormities of subtle and textile perukes; now,
1199 I, 3 | therefore, no doubt, might have succeeded in the trusteeship of (his)
1200 I, 6 | if that (foreign) conch suffers from some internal pustule,
1201 II, 12 | yet, even the Scriptures suggest (to us the reflection),
1202 II, 5 | UNDER THE LATTER HEAD.~These suggestions are not made to you, of
1203 II, 13 | furniture) such as to be suited to retain faith as its inmate
1204 II, 6 | for the head; while the sun's warmth, too, so desirable
1205 II, 13 | eminent amid them who are sunk down? If you hide your lamp
1206 II, 3 | look at it, is in your case superfluous, you may justly disdain
1207 II, 5 | is the devil's work. To superinduce on a divine work Satan's
1208 I, 5 | V. GOLD AND SILVER NOT SUPERIOR IN ORIGIN OR IN UTILITY
1209 I, 2 | never have either shown or supplied anything conducive to integrity,
1210 II, 9 | of outward embellishment supplies a grace, as it were, from
1211 I, 8 | party-walls use slightingly, to supply the place of painting, the
1212 I, 3 | deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide calamity,
1213 I, 3 | their memory that Noah, the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson
1214 I, 9 | patrimony. On a single thread is suspended a million of sesterces.
1215 II, 12 | immodest associations and suspicions. For why is the integrity
1216 II, 4 | please either one who is suspicious, or else one who desires
1217 I, 6 | know conchs (which axe) sweet fruits of the sea. But if
1218 I, 1intro| state, instituted as if to swell the pomp of her funeral.~
1219 I, 6 | while she heaps ornaments (taken) from his head on her own
1220 | taking
1221 I, 2 | quality and condition of their teachers: in that sinners could never
1222 I, 2 | things) are to be called teachings, ill masters must of necessity
1223 I, 5 | is only after it has been tearfully wrought by penal labour
1224 I, 3 | portions) nearly which tell of Christ. Nor, of course,
1225 II, 6 | even from white to black! O temerity! The age which is the object
1226 II, 9 | attained wisdom, take heed to temper an evil of this kind; lest,
1227 II, 9 | to exhibit in your face temperance and unaffectedness, and
1228 II, 11 | make the circuit of the temples, nor demand (to be present
1229 II, 2 | OURSELVES, WE MUST NOT PUT TEMPTATION IN THE WAY OF OTHERS. WE
1230 II, 1intro| although it be actively tenacious of itself in the mind up
1231 II, 2 | WILL ABSTAIN FROM WHATEVER TENDS TO SIN, AS WELL AS FROM
1232 II, 7 | enormities of subtle and textile perukes; now, after the
1233 II, 12 | described! It was the fact that Thamar "had painted out and adorned
1234 I, 6 | more pleasing in savour than--I do not say the oyster
1235 II, 9 | that grace) bootless and thankless, as if it were disarmed
1236 II, 6 | honour of the unclean spirit, that--unless it is applied for
1237 | thee
1238 II, 6 | blushes (for itself)! a theft is effected! youth, wherein
1239 I, 8 | volume of their own about them--(ay, and) even idolatry
1240 | thereby
1241 I, 8 | and the fire which feeds (thereon), and the animals which
1242 II, 13 | luminaries of the world are these--our good works. What is
1243 II, 10 | garments which, light and thin (in themselves), were to
1244 | thine
1245 II, 10 | flatter ourselves with thinking that God is merely a Creator,
1246 II, 3 | voluptuousness, unless any one thinks that there is some other
1247 II, 7 | loosed, now cultivated, now thinned out? Some are anxious to
1248 II, 6 | they transfer their hair (thither)! Ill, ay, most ill, do
1249 II, 2 | events, put the spirit into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a
1250 | though
1251 I, 9 | ample patrimony. On a single thread is suspended a million of
1252 II, 2 | shall love thy neighbour as thyself?" "Care not merely about
1253 II, 13 | palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till it grow into the numb hardness
1254 I, 5 | events, neither is the field tilled by means of gold, nor the
1255 II, 5 | to whom (lying) with the tongue is not lawful!--to seek
1256 II, 10 | so high a value upon the tormenting of His own work and the
1257 I, 5 | the mine, it passes from torments to ornaments, from punishments
1258 II, 10 | of His own work and the tortures of innocent infancy, learning
1259 I, 9 | and some one particular tract of sea, are mutually foreign
1260 II, 11 | purpose of transacting the trade of voluptuousness, or else
1261 I, 3 | domestic renown and hereditary tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather'
1262 II, 9 | the times. And so we are trained by God for the purpose of
1263 II, 11 | either for the purpose of transacting the trade of voluptuousness,
1264 II, 6 | Gaul: thus, as it is, they transfer their hair (thither)! Ill,
1265 II, 5 | but he who by wickedness transfigured man's spirit? He it is,
1266 II, 5 | whose hand you are, is a transgression. Shall a Christian be assisted
1267 I, 1intro| unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter
1268 I, 1intro| sheep, and the Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed, and
1269 II, 10 | whereby the experimental trials of continence should be
1270 II, 7 | whether it will be women thus tricked out whom the angels carry
1271 II, 8 | acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries of form peculiarly its own,--(
1272 II, 6 | great! The more old age tries to conceal itself, the more
1273 II, 3 | to be feared, as neither troublesome to its possessors, nor destructive
1274 I, 3 | might have succeeded in the trusteeship of (his) preaching; or,
1275 II, 10 | their servants in order to try whether and how they will
1276 II, 2 | the spirit into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (
1277 I, 1intro| yourself over and above your tunics of skins? Come, now; if
1278 I, 2 | nothing; but that, being turned from simplicity and sincerity,
1279 II, 1intro| integrity of the flesh, and in turning away from (actual) fornication;
1280 I, 8 | atrocities of the arena, or the turpitudes of the stage, simply because
1281 I, 4 | habit carries with it a twofold idea--dress and ornament.
1282 I, 8 | the place of painting, the Tyrian and the violet-coloured
1283 I, 1intro| Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed, and the Phrygians
1284 II, 4 | blessed (sisters): no wife is "ugly" to her own husband. She "
1285 I, 8 | pleasing to God, unless He was unable to order sheep to be born
1286 I, 2 | please men, who, while still unadorned, and uncouth and--so to
1287 II, 9 | your face temperance and unaffectedness, and a simplicity altogether
1288 II, 4 | not exact it: if for an unbeliever, he does not believe in
1289 II, 4 | think (to be) graces: an unbelieving one, on the other hand,
1290 I, 2 | while still unadorned, and uncouth and--so to say--crude and
1291 I, 6 | they may shine, and artful underlaying that they may show to advantage,
1292 II, 1intro| it must be imperfect and undisciplined to such a degree that, although
1293 I, 8 | hangings, which you laboriously undo and metamorphose. Purple
1294 II, 5 | man's spirit? He it is, undoubtedly, who adapted ingenious devices
1295 II, 7 | the manner of a helmet of undressed hide, as it were a sheath
1296 II, 6 | application of even any undrugged moisture, lays up a store
1297 II, 12 | inferiority would the poor unhappy victims of the public lusts
1298 II, 10 | when He was bidding the universe to come into being, to issue
1299 II, 13 | softness and effeminacy to unman the manliness of faith are
1300 II, 3 | STILL IT IS TO BE SHUNNED AS UNNECESSARY AND VAINGLORIOUS.~Let it
1301 I, 5 | point into planks. I leave unnoticed the fact that the needs
1302 I, 1intro| devil's gateway: you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree:
1303 II, 6 | iniquitous world, to whom it is unsightly to approach (your own) end!~
1304 II, 12 | MERETRICIOUS, AND THEREFORE UNSUITABLE TO MODEST WOMEN.~Let us
1305 I, 8 | able, then plainly He was unwilling: what God willed not, of
1306 II, 5 | are (these things)! How unworthy the Christian name, to wear
1307 II, 13 | yourselves with the silk of uprightness, the fine linen of holiness,
1308 II, 11 | modesty. Well, but it is urged by some, "Let not the Name
1309 I, 7 | matrons at the contemptuous usage of the Parthians and Medes,
1310 I, 2 | and--through gratuitous use--contumelious, if they had
1311 II, 10 | creatures. For how far more usefully and cautiously shall we
1312 II, 6 | necessary, and salutary uses, for which God's creature
1313 I, 5 | it, if it serves to make utensils even for foul purposes.
1314 II, 3 | SHUNNED AS UNNECESSARY AND VAINGLORIOUS.~Let it now be granted that
1315 I, 1intro| him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed
1316 I, 7 | WHICH MAKES SUCH THINGS VALUABLE.~It is only from their rarity
1317 I, 2 | wherewith necklaces are variegated, and the circlets of gold
1318 II, 12 | was hidden beneath her "veil,"--the quality of her garb
1319 II, 7 | false hair. God bids you "be veiled." I believe (He does so)
1320 II, 10 | provoked the anger and the vengeance of God? Now, granting that
1321 II, 6 | it be detected. Here is a veritable eternity, in the (perennial)
1322 I, 5 | preserves (the fame of) certain vessels for eating and drinking
1323 I, 9 | observed). This (second vice) will be ambition; and hence,
1324 I, 9 | Hence is educed another vice--that of immoderate having;
1325 I, 9 | nature nor by truth, but by a vicious passion of the mind,--(namely,)
1326 I, 6 | those jewels to be which vie with gold in haughtiness,
1327 I, 5 | helpless without the laborious vigour of iron and brass. Already,
1328 I, 5 | and brass, and other the vilest material substances, enjoy
1329 I, 8 | painting, the Tyrian and the violet-coloured and the grand royal hangings,
1330 II, 10 | instructions), in (the virtues of) eyelid-powder and the
1331 II, 11 | some brother who is sick is visited, or else the sacrifice is
1332 I, 8 | have already published a volume of their own about them--(
1333 II, 8 | wish to please by means of voluptuous attraction, all these things
1334 I, 4 | IV. WAIVING THE QUESTION OF THE AUTHORS,
1335 I, 1intro| meanness of appearance, walking about as Eve mourning and
1336 II, 11 | became a Christian, she walks in poorer garb!" Will you
1337 II, 11 | studious) arrangement and (wanton) negligence. And if the
1338 II, 2 | and not at the same time warily, possesses no safe and firm
1339 II, 6 | the head; while the sun's warmth, too, so desirable for imparting
1340 II, 9 | accordance with the apostle, who warns us "to use this world as
1341 I, 3 | this (consideration) to warrant our assertion of (the genuineness
1342 II, 2 | security; whereas he who is wary will be truly able to be
1343 II, 12 | mountains and very many waters, has merited from the Lord
1344 I, 9 | the product of so copious wealth:~
1345 II, 5 | unworthy the Christian name, to wear a fictitious face, (you,)
1346 II, 7 | however, do add to your weight some kind of rolls, or shield-bosses,
1347 I, 2 | they had disclosed certain well-concealed material substances, and
1348 I, 2 | substances, and several not well-revealed scientific arts--if it is
1349 | whereby
1350 II, 11 | word of God is dispensed. Whichever of these you like to name
1351 I, 5 | silver may be judged not a whit more noble (than theirs).
1352 II, 13 | and apostles; drawing your whiteness from simplicity, your ruddy
1353 | whoever
1354 II, 10 | abstains entirely; who has a wholesome fear even of his lord's
1355 I, 7 | with gold, and to lade the wicked with riches--the more guilty,
1356 II, 5 | into an entire crudity and wildness of appearance; nor are we
1357 II, 6 | we make it yellow,--more winning in grace." And yet such
1358 II, 10 | should be conducted? Do not wise heads of families purposely
1359 II, 6 | which is the object of our wishes and prayers blushes (for
1360 I, 2 | death,--those angels, to wit, who rushed from heaven
1361 II, 9 | last blest with quiet and withdrawn into the harbour of modesty,
1362 I, 7 | below their bosom alone is witness to the cylindrical stones
1363 II, 9 | shows plainly that even wives themselves are so to be
1364 I, 3 | of course, is this fact wonderful, that they did not receive
1365 II, 11 | is offered, or else the word of God is dispensed. Whichever
1366 II, 13 | implanting in your ears the words of God; fitting on your
1367 II, 10 | excessive labour, moreover, of working them with arts introduced
1368 I, 8 | made the victims, are God's workmanship; since even the material
1369 I, 3 | have safely survived that world-wide calamity, the abolisher
1370 I, 7 | gems) are not generally worn with a view to ostentation.
1371 II, 9 | a simplicity altogether worthy of the divine discipline,
1372 II, 9 | premiss, saying, "The time is wound up." If, then he shows plainly
1373 II, 12 | prevent my spirit from being wounded by shamelessness through (
1374 II, 10 | the fashion of) finely-cut wounds for the ears, and set so
1375 II, 9 | if it were disarmed and wrecked. On the other hand, if natural
1376 II, 13 | I know not whether the wrist that has been wont to be
1377 I, 5 | after it has been tearfully wrought by penal labour in the deadly
1378 II, 10 | X. TERTULLIAN REFERS AGAIN
1379 II, 11 | XI. CHRISTIAN WOMEN, FURTHER,
1380 II, 12 | XII. SUCH OUTWARD ADORNMENTS
1381 II, 13 | XIII. IT IS NOT ENOUGH THAT GOD
1382 | ye
1383 II, 6 | white or black, we make it yellow,--more winning in grace."
1384 I, 3 | divinely inspired. By the yews it may now seem to have
1385 II, 13 | fitting on your necks the yoke of Christ. Submit your head
1386 II, 1intro| right which I enjoy with you--I, the most meanest in that
1387 | yours
1388 II, 3 | draw the eyes and sighs of youths after it. Thus (a thing)