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1 21| XXI. OF VIRGINS.~But that point which is 2 21| throughout the churches, whether virgins ought to be veiled or no, 3 21| of. For they who allow to virgins immunity from head-covering, 4 21| apostle has not defined "virgins" by name, but "women," as " 5 21| might either have named "virgins" specially; or generally, 6 22| that he has not named "virgins" (as he does in another 7 22| elder; or else let the male "virgins," too, be veiled, if the 8 22| be veiled, if the female virgins withal are not veiled, because 9 22| angelic concupiscence, unless "virgins" are incapable of excelling 10 22| see whether it were not virgins alone whom they lusted after; 11 22| head been assigned also to virgins? If "it is shameful" for 12 22| extends) even unto those virgins whom their childhood defends, 13 22| for imposing the veil on virgins also. Under our dispensation, 14 22| of others. Granted that virgins be not compelled to be veiled, 15 22| cannot deny themselves to be virgins, content, in the security