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1 4 | THE ARGUMENT DRAWN FROM 1 COR. XI. 5-16.~But in so
2 4 | DRAWN FROM 1 COR. XI. 5-16.~But in so far as it is
3 4 | ARGUMENT DRAWN FROM 1 COR. XI. 5-16.~But in so far as it
4 3 | violated in a virgin by the abstraction of her covering, she has
5 16| themselves, to induce them to accept these (suggestions) the
6 16| than humility; nothing more acceptable than modesty; nothing more
7 9 | bishop had been bound to accord her any relief, he might,
8 5 | substance she begins to be accounted by being made his wife.
9 7 | at whose bar it stands accused of the driving of the angels
10 10| concupiscence when you have become accustomed to such concupiscence; whereas
11 1 | as whatever is matter of acknowledgment received. The rule of faith,
12 1 | is always operating and adding daily to the ingenuities
13 16| virgin-daughter--let me address you according to the names
14 17| sister of ours was thus addressed by an angel, beating her
15 7 | moreover, the apostle further adds the prejudgment of "nature,"
16 1 | then, is the Paraclete's administrative office but this: the direction
17 1 | discipline and conversation admit the "novelty" of correction;
18 17| THE MARRIED WOMEN.~But we admonish you, too, women of the second (
19 13| If on account of men they adopt a false garb, let them carry
20 7 | distinction; for their very adornment properly consists in this,
21 14| God, or the Church which adorns or commends virgins? (Our
22 7 | manner not naming the angels adulterers, but husbands, while they
23 3 | power of discerning began to advance, so that the licence granted
24 1 | reformation of the intellect, the advancement toward the "better things?"
25 1 | Look how creation itself advances little by little to fructification.
26 9 | does she (thereby) earn adverse to her own condition? Is
27 11| whom she had sighted from afar was the man, awaited not
28 9 | experimental training in all the affections may, on the one hand, have
29 2 | places, too, beneath this (African) sky, where this practice
30 3 | been content to make an agreement with custom, in order that
31 12| consult the looking-glass to aid their beauty, and thin down
32 9 | them capable of readily aiding all others with counsel
33 12| mantle about them with an air, fit tightly the multiform
34 5 | which from the beginning was allotted to a virgin. But some ingeniously
35 16| sex, which must neither allow your own eyes egress nor
36 8 | silent as to the virgin; allowing, to wit, the virgin to be
37 9 | uncovered is the same which allows her to sit there as a virgin:
38 1 | rule of faith, indeed, is altogether one, alone immoveable and
39 12| multiform shoe, carry down more ample appliances to the baths.
40 7 | it is) on account of the angels--those, to wit, whom we read
41 5 | nothing for a surname? On all animals Adam imposed names; and
42 4 | and the succedent to the antecedent, and the partial to the
43 2 | apostles or apostolic men; and antecedently, I think, to certain (founders,
44 2 | were founded by apostles or apostolic men; and antecedently, I
45 1 | I. TRUTH RATHER TO BE APPEALED TO THAN CUSTOM, AND TRUTH
46 16| NATURE, AND DISCIPLINE, APPEALS TO THE VIRGINS THEMSELVES.~
47 16| do not belie yourself in appearing as a bride. For wedded you
48 6 | again, there is one who appears to himself to have made
49 5 | the Scripture, she has the appellation woman before she was wedded,
50 17| beating her neck, as if in applause: "Elegant neck, and deservedly
51 5 | IN' CONNECTION WITH ITS APPLICATION TO EVE.~But since they use
52 15| among the heathens to be apprehended, which they call Fascination,
53 14| and elated by the public appropriation of their property, and laden
54 8 | taught, their disciples approve.~
55 2 | them, would never have been approved by any except by some men
56 17| infelicity, that females are more apt to be fallen in love with
57 17| the veil is their yoke. Arabia's heathen females will be
58 10| continence of (this) greater ardour involve; and therefore the
59 4 | far as it is the custom to argue even from the Scriptures
60 1 | grain, and from the grain arises the shoot, and from the
61 11| procrastination of their parents, arising from straitened means or
62 3 | Demonstrate that it is Thyself who art the coverer of virgins.
63 12| themselves from virgins, laying aside (beginning with their head
64 3 | women who have the power of asking somewhat from husbands,
65 11| her tO be a woman whom you assert to be undergoing womanly
66 7 | cause (assigned for this assertion). For if (it is) on account
67 7 | of God, see to it, if it asserts that close-cut hair is graceful
68 14| warmth creep over her amid assiduous embraces and kisses. Thus
69 5 | to wife. But I prefer to assign this usage as a testimony
70 5 | was made by God for man's assistance, that female was forthwith
71 10| else the cicadas of the Athenians, or else the curls of the
72 14| TO THE VIRGINS THEMSELVES ATTENDANT UPON NOT-VEILING~They report
73 16| the law; Nature joins to attest it; Discipline exacts it.
74 11| husband except after the attestation by blood of her maturity;
75 6 | accordance with Genesis, attributing it to the sex; calling the
76 14| under the eye of God. What audacities, again, will (such an one)
77 13| they succeed in selling aught of virginity among the heathens
78 1 | stages of growth: all things await their season. In short,
79 11| sighted from afar was the man, awaited not the grasp of the hand,
80 11| be self-conscious, and to awake to the sense of her own
81 13| strangers: let them stand in awe of the brethren too; or
82 3 | it were to rape? For they axe no less unwilling to suffer
83 3 | of a good thing, but of a bad, tending to sinful edification.
84 17| their turbans and woollen bands, do not veil their head,
85 2 | the same hope, the same baptismal sacraments; let me say it
86 9 | permitted her) to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer, nor to claim
87 7 | presence of God, at whose bar it stands accused of the
88 2 | ascribe the custom to Greek or barbarian Gentilehood. But I have
89 10| else the fillets of the barbarians, or else the cicadas of
90 12| fact of leaving their head bare--denying by one single feature
91 8 | on the other (a law) of baring. Therefore, if the fact
92 12| ample appliances to the baths. Why should I pursue particulars?
93 7 | each case. If "the man is bead of the woman," of course (
94 17| certain (creature), more beast than bird, albeit winged,
95 17| thus addressed by an angel, beating her neck, as if in applause: "
96 12| looking-glass to aid their beauty, and thin down their over-exacting
97 | become
98 | becomes
99 3 | the power of discerning began to advance, so that the
100 7 | it says, "when men had begun to grow more numerous upon
101 16| mere) opinion appear in behalf of? or what is the colour
102 13| Himself, He is as capable of beholding whatever is done in secret,
103 11| side, that in that case it behoved the virgin to be veiled
104 1 | show in Latin also that it behoves our virgins to be veiled
105 2 | itself. For that custom which belies virgins while it exhibits
106 12| a woman than the latter believed a virgin. Such is, then,
107 1 | irreformable; the rule, to wit, of believing in one only God omnipotent,
108 14| are forced to cover their bellies by the ruin resulting from
109 14| Sometimes it is that god--their belly--himself; because the brotherhood
110 2 | other. Seeing and being seen belong to the self-same lust. To
111 2 | There are places, too, beneath this (African) sky, where
112 13| left hand know" when we bestow the gift of a single halfpenny,
113 15| Other eyes itself has. It betakes itself for refuge to the
114 14| confess they will not, unless betrayed by the cries of their infants
115 13| primarily unlawful, as betraying a lust of glory. For glory
116 11| husband. But if it is at betrothal that they are veiled, because (
117 1 | present time, not of old, bid virgins be wholly covered.~
118 16| by God; just as you are biddeu to "examine all things,
119 7 | ASSIGNED BY THE APOSTLE FOR BIDDING WOMEN TO BE VEILED.~Turn
120 16| Espoused. Christ is He who bids the espoused and wives of
121 17| not veil their head, but bind it up; protected, indeed,
122 17| creature), more beast than bird, albeit winged, with small
123 9 | of widows! whereas if the bishop had been bound to accord
124 2 | more by praising than by blaming her; because the front of
125 6 | virgins, that he ranks her: "Blessed (be) thou among women."
126 6 | virgin." But when he is blessing her, it is "among women,"
127 15| other, she is wise to have blocked up the pathway against temptations.
128 11| after the attestation by blood of her maturity; thus, before
129 7 | inflamed for virgins, whose bloom pleads an excuse for human
130 15| protect its glory against the blows of temptations, against
131 3 | dragged into the church, blushing at being recognised in public,
132 7 | can presume that it was bodies already defiled, and relics
133 9 | elected, but "mothers" to boot, yes, and "educators of
134 6 | whom Christ had not to be born--that is, one who had known
135 1 | out the shrub: thereafter boughs and leaves gather strength,
136 17| the woman." Its limits and boundaries reach as far as the place
137 8 | compelled to be veiled, so let boys not be bidden to be unveiled.
138 17| covered over the region of the brain with linen coifs of small
139 8 | species of each sex; and briefly and fully, with so well-appointed
140 14| shall not be revealed," brings such in general before the
141 10| the tattoo-marks of the Britons; or else let the opposite
142 15| cogitation whatsoever will be broken by the very severity. She
143 14| sins." For, after being brought forth into the midst (of
144 3 | Truth; arise, and as it were burst forth from Thy patience!
145 1 | germen, and from the germen bursts the flower, and from the
146 11| females they despatch to their businesses from (the age of) twelve
147 5 | already common to a virgin, but--proper (to her; a name)
148 7 | withal suggest: "And it came to pass," it says, "when
149 1 | ignorance ought to have been as carefully inquired into as whatever
150 3 | and yet the suffering of carnal violence is the less (evil),
151 17| legs, and moreover of erect carriage. She, they say, when she
152 1 | directed, and ordained, and carried on to perfection, by that
153 12| the authority which age carries? Set before yourself each (
154 10| carry their glory in secret, carrying no token to make them, too,
155 7 | to be shaded, which has cast stumbling-stones even so
156 7 | established, while the self-same causes which necessitate the veil
157 11| without espousals, they cease to be virgins. Time even
158 15| disposition of the former, the censorial light of the latter; and
159 5 | s sake; which could net chance to Eve, because it could
160 11| husband! Already her voice is changed, her limbs fully formed,
161 2 | must have been similar in character to the virgins themselves.
162 14| brethren with every honour and charitable bounty, so long as they
163 17| to all. But how severe a chastisement will they likewise deserve,
164 3 | matter had been left to choice, for each virgin to veil
165 2 | we observe? What shall we choose? We cannot contemptuously
166 10| barbarians, or else the cicadas of the Athenians, or else
167 7 | it wholly covers the very citadel of the head with an encirclement
168 7 | to it, if it asserts that close-cut hair is graceful to a virgin
169 11| her "shame" everywhere clothing itself, the months paying
170 17| The region of the veil is co-extensive with the space covered by
171 15| to say, morose? Any evil cogitation whatsoever will be broken
172 11| discussion--not to dissipate its coherence--we will now discharge by
173 17| of the brain with linen coifs of small dimensions--I suppose
174 16| behalf of? or what is the colour of the opposite view? God'
175 9 | others with counsel and comfort, and that, on the other,
176 1 | from Himself, but what is commanded by Christ. He is the only
177 14| it virgins who (adorn or commend) the Church in the sight
178 14| the Church which adorns or commends virgins? (Our objector)
179 14| fall,-when any sin has been committed, they meditate a deed as
180 5 | well (as others) may be commonly comprised in it. When this
181 3 | indifference, admitted to communion. The matter had been left
182 3 | either custom was, with comparative indifference, admitted to
183 2 | diverse customs were the more compatible with the discipline of God.
184 8 | indulgence. As virgins are not compelled to be veiled, so let boys
185 4 | universal whole? Naturally, a compendious style of speech is both
186 8 | whereof he uses the whole compendiousness (of language): not naming
187 13| reward in His sight, nor get compensation for them from men. But if
188 3 | not these latter rather complain that the petulance, the
189 4 | with general words, which comprehend in themselves the understanding
190 12| these two); one prematurely compressed in woman's garb, and one
191 13| all events in the church conceal their virginity, which they
192 12| SELF-EVIDENT, AND NOT TO BE CONCEALED BY JUST LEAVING THE HEAD
193 15| the very severity. She who conceals her virginity, by that fact
194 10| if nothing (has been thus conceded) to the male, much more
195 14| mothers! Such virgins ever conceive with the readiest facility,
196 2 | a custom which we cannot condemn, inasmuch as it is not "
197 11| who, when she was being conducted--herself still unknown--to
198 14| objector) has therefore confessed that "glory" lies at the
199 11| interchange of salutation; but confessing what she had felt--namely,
200 8 | virgin (had the question been confined to her). So, too, did the
201 7 | angels from their (native) confines, it may blush before the
202 1 | then it is successionally confirmed into an usage, and thus
203 11| mutually plighted their whole confusion; how much more will time
204 5 | father and mother, and be conglutinated to his own woman; and the
205 4 | by not separating, has conjoined to her from whom He has
206 5 | WORD WOMAN, ESPECIALLY IN' CONNECTION WITH ITS APPLICATION TO
207 14| then indeed is another's. Conscious of a now undoubted womanhood,
208 13| very spirit--when we are consecrating to Him our very nature!
209 10| widowed, or of those who, by consent, have already renounced
210 6 | withal called a woman in consequence of the propriety of this
211 8 | why is it that it is not consequently prejudged that, woman being
212 4 | this passage (now under consideration); in which pronouncement
213 8 | all events, of all these (considerations) effect that a man is not
214 6 | THE PARALLEL CASE OF MARY CONSIDERED.~Let us now see whether
215 11| later; decreeing puberty (to consist) in years, not in espousals
216 10| FEMALE VIRGINS ARE TO BE THUS CONSPICUOUS, WHY NOT THE MALE AS WELL?~
217 10| matrimony involves)? For constancy of virginity is maintained
218 1 | This law of faith being constant, the other succeeding points
219 4 | in it,--sun and moon, and constellations and stars,--and the earth
220 17| know that the whole head constitutes "the woman." Its limits
221 12| The next thing is, they consult the looking-glass to aid
222 11| womanly experiences? If the contact of a man makes a woman,
223 4 | signified in it, because contained in it. Thus neither hand,
224 7 | they were females already contaminated whom those angels had desired,
225 3 | modesty, if bashfulness, if contempt of glory, anxious to please
226 2 | shall we choose? We cannot contemptuously reject a custom which we
227 8 | that there had been some contention about this point; for the
228 8 | If any," he says, "is contentious, we have not such a custom,
229 10| honoured on the ground of continency itself likewise. The more
230 3 | are "scandalized" by the continent? Is continence to be recalled?
231 17| mention of (the name of) God, continue uncovered; (who) even when
232 8 | ARGUMENT E CONTRARIO.~The contraries, at all events, of all these (
233 8 | VIII. THE ARGUMENT E CONTRARIO.~The contraries, at all
234 16| Discipline. Whatever is contrary to these is not God's. If
235 1 | points of discipline and conversation admit the "novelty" of correction;
236 1 | much novelty as truth which convicts heresies. Whatever savours
237 4 | THE ARGUMENT DRAWN FROM 1 COR. XI. 5-16.~But in so far
238 1 | conversation admit the "novelty" of correction; the grace of God, to wit,
239 12| perhaps withal vamp it up with cosmetics, toss their mantle about
240 9 | readily aiding all others with counsel and comfort, and that, on
241 9 | as virgin, in that she is counted a widow, and as widow, in
242 3 | it is Thyself who art the coverer of virgins. Interpret in
243 7 | upon the crown, it wholly covers the very citadel of the
244 2 | kinds of eyes reciprocally crave after each other. Seeing
245 1 | only God omnipotent, the Creator of the universe, and His
246 17| no less; like a certain (creature), more beast than bird,
247 3 | sake of these marketable creatures, dragged into the church,
248 14| while she feels a warmth creep over her amid assiduous
249 14| unless betrayed by the cries of their infants themselves.
250 1 | born of the Virgin Mary, crucified under Pontius Pilate, raised
251 10| the Athenians, or else the curls of the Germans, or else
252 1 | always operating and adding daily to the ingenuities of iniquity,
253 15| temptations, against the dam of scandals, against suspicions
254 13| how deep should be the darkness in which we ought to enshroud
255 16| God. For nothing is to Him dearer than humility; nothing more
256 1 | above, withal, He made a declaration concerning this His work.
257 4 | treating of marriage, he declares likewise with regard to '
258 11| male from two years later; decreeing puberty (to consist) in
259 3 | hardihood to drag off a dress dedicated to God! What worse could
260 5 | reference a name which was deduced from another signification;
261 14| committed, they meditate a deed as disgraceful as the honour
262 13| eleemosynary bounty whatever, how deep should be the darkness in
263 1 | ignorance proceeds from his own defect. Moreover, whatever is matter
264 8 | and in none of its parts defective. But the virgin is withal
265 3 | custom do I wish Thee to defend; for by this time even that
266 7 | that it was bodies already defiled, and relics of human lust,
267 5 | future, was called by a definite name, at the present time
268 17| too, women of the second (degree of) modesty, who have fallen
269 11| Israel, it is unlawful to deliver one to a husband except
270 14| facility, and have the happiest deliveries, and children indeed most
271 13| expose it in the church? I demand a reason. Is it to please
272 3 | liberty is being stormed! Demonstrate that it is Thyself who art
273 15| virginity, by that fact denies even her womanhood.~
274 3 | chosen by a virgin? You have denuded a maiden in regard of her
275 11| their tributes; and do you deny her tO be a woman whom you
276 12| profess by their entire deportment.~
277 15| He does, the humble, and depressing the elated. The more holy
278 5 | elsewhere be able to show to derive from the Scriptures the
279 6 | which the normal type has descended. Else, as far as relates
280 7 | the sons of God, having descried the daughters of men, that
281 17| chastisement will they likewise deserve, who, amid (the recital
282 14| relaxes; thus is learned the desire of pleasing in another way!~
283 7 | contaminated whom those angels had desired, so much the more "on account
284 1 | have ceased, or else have desisted from advancing? whereas
285 11| For their females they despatch to their businesses from (
286 14| womb, for fear of being detected in being a mother as well!
287 9 | in some other way without detriment to the respect due to discipline;
288 1 | TRUTH PROGRESSIVE IN ITS DEVELOPMENTS.~HAVING already undergone
289 3 | custom under which Thou didst enjoy thy own liberty is
290 11| their own fights to the (different) ages. For their females
291 14| would rather not) it is a difficult thing for one to turn woman
292 4 | and necessary; inasmuch as diffuse speech is both tiresome
293 16| examine all things, and diligently follow whatever is better."
294 17| with linen coifs of small dimensions--I suppose for fear of pressing
295 1 | should, little by little, be directed, and ordained, and carried
296 1 | administrative office but this: the direction of discipline, the revelation
297 3 | partially. But when the power of discerning began to advance, so that
298 11| its coherence--we will now discharge by an answer. For when we
299 8 | the apostles taught, their disciples approve.~
300 10| Otherwise, it were sufficiently discourteous, that while females, subjected
301 14| head uncovered for fear of discovery, and walks about in a garb
302 11| the sake of the subsequent discussion--not to dissipate its coherence--
303 10| already renounced the common disgrace (which matrimony involves)?
304 14| they meditate a deed as disgraceful as the honour was high which
305 9 | why it is granted her to dispense with the veil, that she
306 9 | the church? that she may display the honour of sanctity in
307 15| the other God,the envious disposition of the former, the censorial
308 8 | without entering upon disquisitions as to why he has not withal
309 11| subsequent discussion--not to dissipate its coherence--we will now
310 8 | case: two laws, mutually distinctive; on the one hand (a law)
311 4 | necessity for individually distinguishing the (various parts of the)
312 2 | is ours: only, the body divides us. Still, here (as generally
313 5 | of nature that the actual divinity of the soul has educed into
314 4 | have the other (subordinate divisions) understood in that word,
315 6 | albeit Hebion resist (that doctrine). I recognise, too, the
316 5 | Scriptures the origin of their doing and saying,) our fashion
317 11| that she is to be veiled, doubtless the age from which the law
318 3 | have had the hardihood to drag off a dress dedicated to
319 3 | these marketable creatures, dragged into the church, blushing
320 3 | hardihood to drag off a dress dedicated to God! What worse
321 7 | it stands accused of the driving of the angels from their (
322 9 | detriment to the respect due to discipline; that such
323 11| course, and paying its own dues to maturity. Another secret
324 7 | would it have been the duty of virgins to be veiled,
325 12| itself) their former selves: dye their hair; and fasten their
326 8 | VIII. THE ARGUMENT E CONTRARIO.~The contraries,
327 10| likewise. The more their sex is eager and warm toward females,
328 12| in flesh. These are the earlier tablets of natural espousals
329 9 | prerogative does she (thereby) earn adverse to her own condition?
330 17| not reaching quite to the ears. If they are so weak in
331 9 | likewise the precepts of ecclesiastical discipline concerning women
332 3 | a bad, tending to sinful edification. Good things scandalize
333 9 | mothers" to boot, yes, and "educators of children;" in order,
334 16| neither allow your own eyes egress nor ingress to other people'
335 13| single halfpenny, or any eleemosynary bounty whatever, how deep
336 17| neck, as if in applause: "Elegant neck, and deservedly bare!
337 4 | goes to make up the list of elements. You will have named all,
338 14| over her amid assiduous embraces and kisses. Thus the forehead
339 8 | boy as implied in the man; embracing the whole order of either
340 11| of her own nature, and to emerge from the virgin's (sense),
341 3 | indication of the better part emerged; immediately the great adversary
342 17| that the necks too may be encircled. For it is they which must
343 7 | citadel of the head with an encirclement of hair.~
344 15| female eyes it shrinks from encountering. Other eyes itself has.
345 3 | itself withal is neither enforced nor prohibited. Truth had
346 13| sole honour. In fine, He enjoins us not to trumpet forth
347 | enough
348 13| darkness in which we ought to enshroud ourselves when we are offering
349 8 | to "every man," without entering upon disquisitions as to
350 9 | notable and marked as she enters the church? that she may
351 17| head, but the face also, so entirely, that they are content,
352 11| nativity, and from the first entry of her age (upon the roll
353 15| adversary, on the other God,the envious disposition of the former,
354 15| and emulation; (against) envy also itself. For there is
355 3 | chosen, just as (she had equal liberty) as to marrying,
356 8 | identity of virginity, share equality of indulgence. As virgins
357 17| of the law, prepared and equipped in readiness to meet every
358 17| long legs, and moreover of erect carriage. She, they say,
359 7 | virgin, to whom pertains the essence of the cause (assigned for
360 7 | virgins and not-virgins may be established, while the self-same causes
361 10| men-virgins, so many voluntary eunuchs, should carry their glory
362 | ever
363 | everywhere
364 1 | that this observance is exacted by truth, on which no one
365 16| to attest it; Discipline exacts it. Which of these (three)
366 15| judgment upon haughtiness, exalting, as He does, the humble,
367 8 | nature been gifted with excess of hair; because to be shaven
368 15| the too unhappy result of excessive praise and glory. This we
369 3 | with front quite bare, excited to a rash audacity; and
370 7 | virgins, whose bloom pleads an excuse for human lust likewise?
371 4 | virgin," will this division exert its patronizing influence
372 14| imperilled by the public exhibition s of herself, while she
373 2 | belies virgins while it exhibits them, would never have been
374 17| To such as read these (exhortations) with good will, to such
375 3 | never would have had an existence.~
376 1 | whole that we call a tree expands: then follows the swelling
377 11| already wedded--her soul by expectancy, her flesh by transformation--
378 9 | order, forsooth, that their experimental training in all the affections
379 5 | name) is woman--and having explained what she formerly was, that
380 17| all the rest of herself exposed. Thus, while she is secure
381 3 | even this. Every public exposure of an honourable virgin
382 4 | the word itself. The word (expressing the) natural (distinction)
383 5 | received. For without a name expressive of her present quality she
384 17| the space for the veil to extend over. For a certain sister
385 12| nuptials. Impose a veil externally upon her who has (already)
386 8 | about this point; for the extinction whereof he uses the whole
387 14| conceive with the readiest facility, and have the happiest deliveries,
388 10| How, then, would God have failed to make any such concession
389 7 | daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives
390 14| virginity, (then) if any virgin falls from the grace of virginity,
391 13| account of men they adopt a false garb, let them carry out
392 2 | II. BEFORE PROCEEDING FARTHER, LET THE QUESTION OF CUSTOM
393 12| selves: dye their hair; and fasten their hair with more wanton
394 10| for themselves--either the feathers of the Garamantes, or else
395 12| bare--denying by one single feature what they profess by their
396 15| shrouded face? a face without feeling? a face, so to say, morose?
397 14| too well loved, while she feels a warmth creep over her
398 8 | similarly comprised in the fellowship of the name, so as to be
399 11| confessing what she had felt--namely, that she had been (
400 5 | the name of the newly-made female--which (name) is woman--and
401 7 | account of concupiscence after females--who can presume that it
402 5 | the maternal fount of the feminine race. Besides, Adam was
403 1 | through the Gospel, to the fervour of youth: now, through the
404 11| they may render their own fights to the (different) ages.
405 10| Garamantes, or else the fillets of the barbarians, or else
406 1 | ignorance or simplicity, custom finds its beginning; and then
407 14| she is tickled by pointing fingers, while she is too well loved,
408 13| whether what is human be firm and true.~
409 12| about them with an air, fit tightly the multiform shoe,
410 1 | to the mellowness of its flavour. So, too, righteousness--
411 7 | virgin in like manner as that flowing hair is to a boy.) To her,
412 16| all things, and diligently follow whatever is better." It
413 4 | what observance is to be followed." And accordingly (it is
414 4 | Thus neither hand, nor foot, nor any one of the members,
415 10| had made it to females; forasmuch as, besides the authority
416 8 | self-same reason by which he forbore to name the boy as implied
417 6 | necessarily have a prejudicating force from which the normal type
418 14| embraces and kisses. Thus the forehead hardens; thus the sense
419 | formerly
420 11| that marriage likewise, as fornication is, is transacted by gaze
421 14| whole, after being long fought against by their mothers!
422 2 | those Churches which were founded by apostles or apostolic
423 16| with Discipline. Scripture founds the law; Nature joins to
424 5 | has named in the maternal fount of the feminine race. Besides,
425 17| loins, lest withal this freedom of thy neck profit thee
426 17| second (and indeed more frequent) infelicity, that females
427 1 | advances little by little to fructification. First comes the grain,
428 16| other people's. Wear the full garb of woman, to preserve
429 9 | herself a lot in any manly function, not to say (in any) sacerdotal
430 | further
431 6 | recognise, too, the angel Gabriel as having been sent to "
432 6 | Eve. For, writing to the Galatians, "God," he says, "sent His
433 10| either the feathers of the Garamantes, or else the fillets of
434 1 | thereafter boughs and leaves gather strength, and the whole
435 10| may be looked up to and gazed at on all sides and magnified
436 2 | divides us. Still, here (as generally happens in all cases of
437 7 | unless the virgin is a third generic class, some monstrosity
438 2 | custom to Greek or barbarian Gentilehood. But I have proposed (as
439 10| or else the curls of the Germans, or else the tattoo-marks
440 14| to perfection and through gestation till they were born sound
441 13| reward in His sight, nor get compensation for them from
442 13| know" when we bestow the gift of a single halfpenny, or
443 8 | he has not by nature been gifted with excess of hair; because
444 13| continence is conferred, "why gloriest thou, as if thou have not
445 3 | work. The virgins of men go about, in opposition to
446 4 | seas, and everything that goes to make up the list of elements.
447 17| means to nullify it, by going neither covered nor bare.
448 5 | because the natural one had gone before. For if "Eve" means "
449 1 | stage it passed, through the Gospel, to the fervour of youth:
450 7 | asserts that close-cut hair is graceful to a virgin in like manner
451 5 | the sex itself, not to a grade of the sex, must be proved
452 3 | III. GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF CUSTOM, AND
453 6 | place: for elsewhere, we grant, we must thus hold. Now,
454 11| the man, awaited not the grasp of the hand, nor the meeting
455 2 | oppose custom. Throughout Greece, and certain of its barbaric
456 5 | instances speak. For the Greeks, too, who use the name of
457 7 | when men had begun to grow more numerous upon the earth,
458 1 | Nothing is without stages of growth: all things await their
459 17| eye free, to enjoy rather half the light than to prostitute
460 13| bestow the gift of a single halfpenny, or any eleemosynary bounty
461 3 | free" in that they are the "hand-maids" of Christ alone--may be
462 2 | Still, here (as generally happens in all cases of various
463 14| readiest facility, and have the happiest deliveries, and children
464 2 | the front of sin is more hard, learning shamelessness
465 14| kisses. Thus the forehead hardens; thus the sense of shame
466 10| image," or on the ground of harder toil? But if nothing (has
467 | hast
468 15| devil, for of him comes hatred of good; sometimes we attribute
469 15| Him comes judgment upon haughtiness, exalting, as He does, the
470 17| for fear of pressing the head--and not reaching quite to
471 17| whatever, on the crown of their heads, and suppose themselves
472 17| hearing as not to be able to hear through a covering, I pity
473 1 | before custom. They who have heard Him prophesying even to
474 17| they are so weak in their hearing as not to be able to hear
475 17| God; who, if He be in the heart, will be recognised as well
476 1 | the dead, received in the heavens, sitting now at the right (
477 6 | have been a virgin, albeit Hebion resist (that doctrine).
478 15| veil of the head as to a helmet, as to a shield, to protect
479 14| how many infants He has helped to perfection and through
480 | Herein
481 1 | as truth which convicts heresies. Whatever savours of opposition
482 1 | opposition to truth, this will be heresy, even (if it be an) ancient
483 4 | stages of life, are added hereto. Subject, therefore, the
484 11| mother, Nature, and another hidden father, Time, have wedded
485 17| they say, when she has to hide, thrusts away into a thicket
486 14| disgraceful as the honour was high which they had. (It is this.)
487 6 | we grant, we must thus hold. Now, however, it is not
488 13| Identity of nature abroad as at home, identity of custom in the
489 14| much as you please with an honest mind; she must necessarily
490 12| virgin. Such is, then, the honesty of age, that there is no
491 10| that males should have been honoured on the ground of continency
492 2 | the same Christ, the same hope, the same baptismal sacraments;
493 17| not even in a moment of an hour, as, because you cannot
494 11| called, albeit a virgin, and "house-father," albeit a stripling. By
495 11| espousals or nuptials. "Housewife" one is called, albeit a
496 15| exalting, as He does, the humble, and depressing the elated.
497 13| whose probation consists in humiliation of every kind. And if it
498 5 | been. But what kind of (hypothesis) is it that one who, with
499 1 | the other hand, if any is ignorant of anything, the ignorance
500 2 | II. BEFORE PROCEEDING FARTHER,