Discourse

 1 Theoph    |  those only who are able to preserve the ever-blooming and unfading
 2  Thal     | will and purpose decides to preserve his flesh in virgin purity, "
 3  Thal     |     exhorts to abide and to preserve it, according the highest
 4  Thal     |   he says, and ambitious to preserve his flesh pure, does better;
 5 Theop     |   he to whom it is given to preserve it and to cultivate it,
 6 Thall     |   and night? And this is to preserve a great chastity, and to
 7 Thekla(47)|                   We cannot preserve the play upon words of the
 8 Arete     |   it would be ridiculous to preserve the organs of generation
 9 Arete     |   but not the tongue; or to preserve the tongue, but neither
10 Arete     |    the hands; or lastly, to preserve these pure, but not the
11 Arete     |   they not only, as I said, preserve the flesh pure from carnal