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1 II, IX | vain appliances of theirs? [7] Why, are there not many,
2 II, IX | of saving disciplines. [8] We are they "upon whom
3 II, XIII| shall not feel them; let us abandon luxuries, and we shall not
4 II, II | desiring that that (gift) may abide in us to the end, yet not
5 II, I | quite forsake the polluted abode. [2] But on the present
6 II, XI | dress." Let us, then, not abolish our old vices! let us maintain
7 I, III | world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things. If that is
8 | above
9 II, II | the father of the faith, Abraham, greatly feared in regard
10 II, I | sense of true modesty is absent, because in those who know
11 II, IX | very "creature of God," abstaining from wine and animal food,
12 II, X | praiseworthy (the servant) who abstains entirely; who has a wholesome
13 II, V | delivered (the precept of) abstinence from what is another's! ----
14 II, IX | body with the luxurious absurdities of pomps and delicacies? [
15 I, VII | not held of so high worth. Abundance is always contumelious toward
16 II, IX | use this world as if we abuse it not; for the fashion
17 II, XIII| that malice may have no access at all to you, or that you
18 II, I | Its Essence, But in Its Accessories.~[1] Handmaids of the living
19 I, I | with the cupidity (which accompanies it), from the ground; if
20 I, I | had neither had nor known. Accordingly these things are all the
21 I, IV | disgracing." The former is accounted (to consist) in gold, and
22 II, X | those (angels) who, on these accounts, have provoked the anger
23 I, V | is that so high dignity accrues to gold and silver, since
24 II, II | their instancy, sometimes achieve (a wickedness) which God
25 II, VIII| and if this sex of ours acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries
26 II, XI | public shows, nor have any acquaintance with the holy days of the
27 I, I | she now to crave, or be acquainted with (if she desires to
28 I, III | assigned this order (of action) to angels, is not received
29 I, VIII| too, with regard to their active use, does the origin of
30 II, I | degree that, although it be actively tenacious of itself in the
31 II, II | caution to save us. He who acts securely, and not at the
32 | actually
33 II, V | it is, undoubtedly, who adapted ingenious devices of this
34 I, III | these considerations is added the fact that Enoch possesses
35 II, V | work; ) taking these their additions, of course, from the adversary
36 II, I | brotherhood ---- emboldens me to address to you a discourse, not,
37 II, XII | judged (her to be one), and addressed and bargained with (her
38 II, IV | were speaking to Gentiles, addressing you with a Gentile precept,
39 I, III | some, because it is not admitted into the Jewish canon either.
40 I, I | And do you think about adorning yourself over and above
41 II, VIII| These Remarks on Personal Adornment.~[1] Of course, now, I,
42 II, XII | Chapter XII. ---- Such Outward Adornments Meretricious, and Therefore
43 I, VIII| can garments derive from adulteration with illegitimate colours?
44 II, V | another's! ---- to practise adultery in your mien, (you,) who
45 I, II | sex as men: the self-same advancement to the dignity of judging,
46 I, VI | underlaying that they may show to advantage, and careful piercing that
47 I, V | more necessary to human affairs, but do also none the less
48 I, I | humble garb, and rather to affect meanness of appearance,
49 II, VII | simplicity: beside which, you affix I know not what enormities
50 II, IX | upon whom the ends of the ages have met, having ended their
51 I, III | literature is generally agreed to have been restored through
52 II, VII | up to meet Christ in the air If these (decorations) are
53 II, V | instructed. [5] But how alien from your schoolings and
54 I, III | would not have been silent alike concerning the disposition (
55 II, IX | the fact that it is by the allied aid of dress that they prostitute
56 II, III | For even if "glorying" is (allowable), we ought to wish our sphere
57 II, VII | salvation? Why is no rest allowed to your hair, which must
58 I, VI | assistance in meretricious allurement. [2] But whatever it is
59 II, VIII| sobriety her assistant and ally. How, then, shall we practise
60 II, VI | on her head, as upon an altar? For, whatever is wont to
61 II, IX | unaffectedness, and a simplicity altogether worthy of the divine discipline,
62 I, IX | that from concupiscence ambient in the mind it is born,
63 II, V | censure they, do when they amend, when they add to, (His
64 II, XIII| darkness, and stand eminent amid them who are sunk down? [
65 I, IX | smallest caskets is produced an ample patrimony. On a single thread
66 II, II | concupiscence, if God, in "amplifying the law," do not dissociate
67 I, II | are, ) have the self-same angelic nature promised as your
68 II, X | accounts, have provoked the anger and the vengeance of God?~[
69 II, IX | abstaining from wine and animal food, the enjoyments of
70 I, VIII| feeds (thereon), and the animals which are made the victims,
71 II, XIII| that has rejoiced in the anklet will suffer itself to be
72 II, V | their eyes prominent with antimony, sin against Him. To them,
73 I, V | iron, but the memory of antiquity still preserves (the fame
74 I, I | perdition. "In pains and in anxieties dost thou bear (children),
75 II, VII | now thinned out? Some are anxious to force their hair into
76 II, VIII| consulting the mirror; to gaze anxiously into it: ---- while yet,
77 | anywhere
78 II, V | in your persons it may be apparent that you, in a certain sense,
79 II, IX | sentiments about these vain appliances of theirs? [7] Why, are
80 I, VIII| Purposes to Which He Has Appointed Them.~[1] Similarly, too,
81 II, II | More useful, then, is it to apprehend that we may possibly fail,
82 II, II | presume that we cannot; for apprehending will lead us to fear, fearing
83 II, VI | whom it is unsightly to approach (your own) end!~
84 II, XII | invariably conjoined with and appropriate to bodily prostitution.
85 II, I | the introduction into an appropriation (in) us of the Holy Spirit,
86 II, XIII| it is not necessary to be approved by men; for I do not require
87 I, VIII| or the atrocities of the arena, or the turpitudes of the
88 II, IX | Culture, to Be Shunned. Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII.~[
89 II, XI | go forth clad in your own armour; (and) all the more, in
90 I, II | circlets of gold wherewith the arms are compressed, and the
91 II, VIII| round about (the mouth); to arrange the hair, and disguise its
92 II, VII | all the labour spent in arranging the hair render to salvation?
93 II, XI | Hence for Dressing in Fine Array as Gentiles. On the Contrary,
94 II, IX | in public so gorgeously arrayed as not to appear to have
95 I, VI | that they may shine, and artful underlaying that they may
96 II, IV | believe in it unless it be artless. Why are you eager to please
97 II, I | Necessary it is that you turn aside from them, as in all other
98 II, VIII| countenance, and in the general aspect of the entire man, mark
99 II, II | and) the owner himself aspersed with the infamy. [5] Are
100 I, III | consideration) to warrant our assertion of (the genuineness of)
101 I, IV | discipline, inasmuch as you are assessed on different principles (
102 II, VI | their procreation did not assign them to Germany and to Gaul:
103 I, VI | render to gold a mutual assistance in meretricious allurement. [
104 II, VIII| is; there is sobriety her assistant and ally. How, then, shall
105 II, V | transgression. Shall a Christian be assisted in anything by that evil
106 II, XII | way. against all immodest associations and suspicions. For why
107 I, II | made a grand match! [4] Assuredly they who, of course, did
108 I, VIII| of the racecourse, or the atrocities of the arena, or the turpitudes
109 I, VIII| a Christian ought not to attach himself to the frenzies
110 I, II | that this ignominy also attaches to woman. For when to an
111 I, I | was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily
112 II, IX | as not to appear to have attained wisdom, take heed to temper
113 II, VI | having lived to old age do attempt to change it even from white
114 I, IX | Prey of Ambition and Its Attendant Evils.~[1] For, as some
115 I, IV | parts of the body which attract the eye. Against the one
116 II, VIII| please by means of voluptuous attraction, all these things are rejected
117 II, XII | reflection), that meretricious attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined
118 II, III | it to themselves also, to augment that (beauty) when (naturally)
119 II, VI | Ill, ay, most ill, do they augur for themselves with their
120 I, VIII| which are not from God, the Author of nature. Thus they are
121 II, XII | a thing from which I am averse hoped for in me? Why does
122 II, IV | will incur the hatred and aversion of husbands. [2] Every husband
123 I, III | Prophecy of Enoch." ~[1] I am aware that the Scripture of Enoch,
124 I, VI | that I know conchs (which axe) sweet fruits of the sea.
125 I, III | destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document
126 I, I | with the needle, and the Babylonians with the loom, and pearls
127 I, II | Female Ornamentation, Traced Back to the Angels Who Had Fallen. ~[
128 II, VII | crown; now, a mass (drawn) backward toward the neck. [2] The
129 I, I | these things are all the baggage of woman in her condemned
130 II, VII | destined to hell. Nay, rather banish quite away from your "free"
131 II, VIII| being envious of women, am banishing them quite from their own (
132 I, II | these are the angels whom in baptism we renounce: these, of course,
133 II, XII | one), and addressed and bargained with (her as such). Whence
134 I, II | of lust, there is nothing base of which the wages are honourable.
135 II, VIII| such as) to cut the beard too sharply; to pluck it
136 II, III | holy woman, if naturally beautiful, give none so great occasion (
137 | became
138 | Becoming
139 | begin
140 II, VI | so they refute the Lord! "Behold!" say they, "instead of
141 II, II | dangerous to the glances of (the beholder's) eyes. [6] For, albeit
142 II, I | the manner in which it behoves you to walk. For most women (
143 I, II | take it, as Christ has with Belial. With what consistency do
144 II, I | For if any modesty can be believed (to exist) in Gentiles,
145 II, IV | cherish your beauty? If for a believer, he does not exact it: if
146 II, IV | chastity; but beauty, a believing (husband) does not require,
147 II, V | Christian") will continue (to belong) to him; for he will be
148 I, I | one of you at all, best beloved sisters, from the time that
149 I, VII | Emeralds lurk in their belts; and the sword (that hangs)
150 II, XII | the quality of her garb belying her as if she had been a
151 II, XIII| the gyve! I fear the neck, beset with pearl and emerald nooses,
152 | besides
153 II, X | escaped Him, when He was bidding the universe to come into
154 II, VII | manufacturers of false hair. God bids you "be veiled." I believe (
155 II, IX | exigencies of riches, or birth, or past dignities, compel
156 II, XI | truly the nations will not blaspheme! A grand blasphemy is that
157 II, XI | some, "Let not the Name be blasphemed in us, if we make any derogatory
158 II, IX | fact, which are at last blest with quiet and withdrawn
159 II, VI | of our wishes and prayers blushes (for itself)! a theft is
160 I, VII | Rome the nobility of gems blushing in the presence of our matrons
161 II, XIII| these things which are the bonds which retard our hope. Let
162 II, I | for anything extrinsic to boot ---- in the matter (I mean)
163 II, IX | they render (that grace) bootless and thankless, as if it
164 II, IX | the enjoyments of which border upon no peril or solicitude;
165 II, V | criminal is it! Our servants borrow nothing from our personal
166 I, VII | that hangs) below their bosom alone is witness to the
167 II, IX | if you do not keep within bounds the enjoyment of your riches
168 II, XIII| surrounded with the palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till it grow
169 I, VI | dragons, just as in the brains of fishes there is a certain
170 II, X | suffer with its earliest breath, in order that from those
171 II, I | studied graces of form and brilliance: ---- wearing in their
172 II, VIII| How, moreover, shall we bring sobriety to bear on the
173 I, VI | ambition fishes up from the British or the Indian sea, it is
174 II, XIII| will give no room to the broadsword! [5] Wherefore, blessed (
175 II, XI | serious. [2] Either some brother who is sick is visited,
176 II, I | of fellow-servantship and brotherhood ---- emboldens me to address
177 II, XIII| He compared us to a city built upon a mountain; if we do
178 II, VI | whatever is wont to be burned to the honour of the unclean
179 II, VI | the force of the cosmetics burns ruin into the hair; and
180 II, XIII| the mind to the garb, and burst out from the conscience
181 II, XIII| hide your lamp beneath a bushel, you must necessarily be
182 II, IX | passing away." And "they who buy are so to act as if they
183 I, III | survived that world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things.
184 I, II | these questions admit of no calculation. Women who possessed angels (
185 I, III | admitted into the Jewish canon either. I suppose they did
186 II, IV | require, because we are not captivated by the same graces which
187 II, I | craving after that of which it carefully shuns the effect. How many
188 II, IV | please others. Be ye without carefulness, blessed (sisters): no wife
189 II, VIII| the entire man, mark our carriage?~
190 II, II | merely, and not applied and carried out with a view to every
191 I, IX | desired. From the smallest caskets is produced an ample patrimony.
192 II, XIII| retard our hope. Let us cast away earthly ornaments if
193 II, X | how far more usefully and cautiously shall we act, if we hazard
194 II, II | comeliness is not to be censured, as being a bodily happiness,
195 II, III | occasion (for carnal appetite). Certainly, if even she be so, she
196 II, VII | you will rise with (your) ceruse and rouge and saffron, and
197 II, XIII| numb hardness of its own chain! I know not whether the
198 I, VII | their convict establishments chained with gold, and to lade the
199 II, X | literature. tells us) for chains! So true is it that it is
200 II, XII | shamelessness through (the channel of) nay ears? Grant that
201 II, IX | of their soul even in the chastened use of food? Sufficiently,
202 II, IX | by God for the purpose of chastising, and (so to say) emasculating,
203 II, V | medicaments, stain their cheeks with rouge, make their eyes
204 II, IV | whom, then, is it that you cherish your beauty? If for a believer,
205 I, I | anxieties dost thou bear (children), woman; and toward thine
206 II, IX | which compensate for the chili of age by the provocative
207 II, XI | of God, that it becomes Christians to walk?~
208 I, II | are variegated, and the circlets of gold wherewith the arms
209 II, XI | For you neither make the circuit of the temples, nor demand (
210 II, IX | spirit and in the flesh we circumcise worldly principles.~
211 II, IX | emasculating, the world. We are the circumcision ---- spiritual and carnal ----
212 II, XIII| has He compared us to a city built upon a mountain; if
213 II, XI | call you, why not go forth clad in your own armour; (and)
214 II, XI | you have been made more clean? Is it according to the
215 II, IX | Wherefore, with regard to clothing also, and all the remaining
216 II, X | of purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped
217 II, VI | see some (women) turn (the colour of) their hair with saffron.
218 I, II | orchil with which wools are coloured, and that black powder itself
219 II, IV | him as his wife); whether commended by form or by character.
220 I, II | with their judges? What commerce have they who are to condemn
221 II, II | penalty from the actual commission of fornication, I know not
222 II, IV | precept, and (one which is) common to all, (I would say, ) "
223 II, XIII| of the world; why has He compared us to a city built upon
224 II, XII | instrumental mean of her comparison with that appellation? She
225 II, III | desirers, nor perilous to its compartners; let it be thought (to be)
226 II, VI | hurtful. What "grace" is compatible with "injury? "What "beauty"
227 I, IX | anywhere, among their own compatriots, because in them there is
228 II, IX | birth, or past dignities, compel to appear in public so gorgeously
229 II, IX | seductions of appetite, which compensate for the chili of age by
230 I, II | if they had conferred no (compensating) gift on the women who had
231 I, II | gold wherewith the arms are compressed, and the medicaments of
232 II, VI | The more old age tries to conceal itself, the more will it
233 II, II | grace must be obliterated by concealment and negligence, as equally
234 I, II | them are assigned, under condemnation, to the penalty of death, ----
235 II, X | of continence should be conducted? Do not wise heads of families
236 I, II | these things as well as to confer them? [3] Was it that women,
237 II, II | substantiality of faith, as to be confident and secure in regard of
238 II, II | Holy Spirit ought to be (confined) to the subject immediately
239 II, X | grand implements of gold for confining or parting the hair; God
240 II, XII | we gather an additional confirmation of the lesson, that provision
241 II, XII | attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined with and appropriate to
242 I, IX | And there are other vices connected with ambition and glory.
243 I, II | who had been enticed into connubial connection with them? But
244 I, III | Noah) had not had this (conservative power) by so short a route,
245 I, IV | Tertullian Proposes to Consider the Things on Their Own
246 I, III | there would (still) be this (consideration) to warrant our assertion
247 I, III | not to receive. To these considerations is added the fact that Enoch
248 I, IV | former is accounted (to consist) in gold, and silver, and
249 II, I | so to walk as if modesty consisted only in the (bare) integrity
250 I, II | has with Belial. With what consistency do we mount that (future)
251 II, I | but likewise of men ---- consists in the exhibition principally
252 II, VI | ruin into the hair; and the constant application of even any
253 II, X | worth, but rarity, which constitutes the goodness (of these things):
254 II, VIII| take every opportunity for consulting the mirror; to gaze anxiously
255 I, VII | presence of our matrons at the contemptuous usage of the Parthians and
256 II, VII | that there is no (open) contending against the Lord's prescripts!
257 II, X | the experimental trials of continence should be conducted? Do
258 II, V | name (of "Christian") will continue (to belong) to him; for
259 II, XI | Array as Gentiles. On the Contrary, Their Appearance Should
260 I, II | splendour, and without ingenious contrivances of grace, could not please
261 I, IX | woman's, the product of so copious wealth.~
262 II, IX | Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII.~[1] Wherefore, with
263 I, VIII| from the devil, from the corrupter of nature: [3] for there
264 II, VI | moreover, the force of the cosmetics burns ruin into the hair;
265 I, IX | have withal enhanced the cost of things, in order that (
266 II, VIII| seriousness in appearance and in countenance, and in the general aspect
267 I, V | substances which are not only cousin-german to them in point of origin,
268 II, VII | sheath for the head and a covering for the crown; now, a mass (
269 I, I | already dead, would also have coveted these things, I imagine!
270 I, I | then, ought she now to crave, or be acquainted with (
271 II, I | with Gentile perversity, in craving after that of which it carefully
272 II, X | represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped neck ornaments; still let
273 II, V | Satan's ingenuities, how criminal is it! Our servants borrow
274 I, VII | is customary to keep (the criminals) in their convict establishments
275 II, VII | head and a covering for the crown; now, a mass (drawn) backward
276 II, III | order that the spirit may be crowned in it, not in order that
277 I, II | and ---- so to say ---- crude and rude, had moved (the
278 II, V | developed into an entire crudity and wildness of appearance;
279 II, III | hope for salvation, let us cull our "glory." Plainly, a
280 I, VI | say, too, that gems are culled from the foreheads of dragons,
281 II, VII | be bound, now loosed, now cultivated, now thinned out? Some are
282 II, V | norm and just measure of cultivation of the person. There must
283 II, IX | as Well as in Personal Culture, to Be Shunned. Arguments
284 I, I | already issued, with the cupidity (which accompanies it),
285 I, II | and had traced out every curious art, even to the interpretation
286 II, VII | to force their hair into curls, some to let it hang loose
287 I, VII | indigenous and plentiful, it is customary to keep (the criminals)
288 I, VII | alone is witness to the cylindrical stones that decorate its
289 II, XII | now, at all events, the daily increasing depravity of
290 II, II | why are we a (source of) danger to our neighbour? why do
291 II, II | and negligence, as equally dangerous to the glances of (the beholder'
292 II, XI | acquaintance with the holy days of the Gentiles. Now it
293 I, V | wrought by penal labour in the deadly laboratories of accursed
294 II, VIII| ours acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries of form peculiarly
295 II, XII | should appear in public decked and painted out after the
296 I, II | quality of these things may be declared meantime, even at this point,
297 I, VII | cylindrical stones that decorate its hilt; and the massive
298 II, II | mentally already committed (the deed) which his concupiscence
299 II, XII | integrity of a chaste mind defiled by its neighbour's suspicion?
300 II, I | undisciplined to such a degree that, although it be actively
301 I, IX | million of sesterces. One delicate neck carries about it forests
302 II, V | another's, (you,) to whom is delivered (the precept of) abstinence
303 II, III | neighbour that which is demanded of beauty, they are furnishing
304 II, I | herself painted out, and denies that she has (ever) been
305 I, VI | supporting pediments, or giving density to roofs? The only edifice
306 I, V | needs of our whole life are dependent upon iron and brass; whereas
307 II, XII | events, the daily increasing depravity of the age has raised so
308 I, I | fully expiate that which she derives from Eve, ---- the ignominy,
309 II, XI | blasphemed in us, if we make any derogatory change from our old style
310 I, VIII| material substances, which descends from God, excuse (that use)
311 II, XII | prostitute could not have been described! [3] It was the fact that
312 I, I | man. On account of your desert ---- that is, death ----
313 I, I | tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are
314 I, II | the reasons why they have deserved to be judged by man. [5]
315 II, VI | the sun's warmth, too, so desirable for imparting to the hair
316 II, III | nor destructive to its desirers, nor perilous to its compartners;
317 II, II | regard of our own conscience, desiring that that (gift) may abide
318 II, II | been made the sword which destroys him: so that, albeit you
319 I, III | the deluge, as, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian
320 II, III | troublesome to its possessors, nor destructive to its desirers, nor perilous
321 I, IV | themselves, in order that we may detect the purposes also for which
322 II, VI | itself, the more will it be detected. [4] Here is a veritable
323 II, V | to you, of course, to be developed into an entire crudity and
324 II, V | undoubtedly, who adapted ingenious devices of this kind; that in your
325 II, X | sheep! It was God, too, who devised by careful thought the manufactures
326 I, I | even the Son of God had to die. And do you think about
327 I, IV | inasmuch as you are assessed on different principles (from other women), ----
328 II, XII | honourable women, that the difficulty is to distinguish them. [
329 II, IX | riches, or birth, or past dignities, compel to appear in public
330 I, V | turn of gold and silver, by dint of their own powers, in
331 II, VIII| the fear due to God, are disallowed? [2] If it is true, (as
332 II, IX | thankless, as if it were disarmed and wrecked. On the other
333 II, XIII| manliness of faith are to be discarded. [4] Otherwise, I know not
334 II, IX | with modesty, is easily discernible from the fact that it is
335 II, IX | the knowledge of saving disciplines. [8] We are they "upon whom
336 II, I | emboldens me to address to you a discourse, not, of course, of affection,
337 I, IV | this early stage (of our discussion) you may look forward and
338 II, III | superfluous, you may justly disdain if you have it not, and
339 I, IV | should be called "womanly disgracing." The former is accounted (
340 II, VIII| to arrange the hair, and disguise its hoariness by dyes; to
341 II, XI | else the word of God is dispensed. Whichever of these you
342 I, V | whose usefulness is so disposed (by the Creator), that they
343 I, III | silent alike concerning the disposition (of things) made by God,
344 II, IX | rest and that harbour), and disquiet seriousness by seductions
345 II, I | simple ignorance or else from dissimulation, have the hardihood so to
346 II, II | amplifying the law," do not dissociate in (the way of) penalty
347 I, IX | as some particular things distributed by God over certain individual
348 I, III | suitable for edification is divinely inspired. By the Jews it
349 I, II | operations of metallurgy, and had divulged the natural properties of
350 I, III | Babylonian storming of it, every document of the Jewish literature
351 II, II | s charge, while yet the domain is branded with ignominy, (
352 II, VIII| them quite from their own (domains). Are there, in our case
353 I, III | heard and remembered, from domestic renown and hereditary tradition,
354 I, I | In pains and in anxieties dost thou bear (children), woman;
355 II, X | Creator, not likewise a Downlooker on His own creatures. [5]
356 II, IX | down the fruits of your dowries, before (receiving) the
357 I, VI | culled from the foreheads of dragons, just as in the brains of
358 II, III | not in order that it may draw the eyes and sighs of youths
359 II, X | unlawful who has a reverent dread of what is lawful?~
360 I, V | certain vessels for eating and drinking made out of brass. Let the
361 I, V | into the ground; no nail drives a silver point into planks.
362 II, VI | hair at once growth and dryness, is hurtful. What "grace"
363 II, VIII| maintain on account of the fear due to God, are disallowed? [
364 I, V | themselves, requiring both to be dug up out of mines, and needing
365 I, I | Through a Woman.~[1] If there dwelt upon earth a faith as great
366 II, X | doubt, who showed the way to dye wools with the juices of
367 I, I | spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed, and the Phrygians embroidered
368 II, VI | Chapter VI. ---- Of Dyeing the Hair.~[1] I see some (
369 II, X | of) eyelid-powder and the dyeings of fleeces, have been condemned
370 II, VIII| disguise its hoariness by dyes; to remove all the incipient
371 II, IV | be artless. Why are you eager to please either one who
372 II, X | learning to suffer with its earliest breath, in order that from
373 I, IV | so that even from this early stage (of our discussion)
374 II, I | short, is there who does not earnestly desire even to look pleasing
375 I, V | of) certain vessels for eating and drinking made out of
376 I, V | mattock plunges a golden edge into the ground; no nail
377 I, III | every Scripture suitable for edification is divinely inspired. By
378 I, VI | density to roofs? The only edifice which they know how to rear
379 II, XI | to them, and they may be edified in you; so that (as the
380 I, IX | having it. [2] Hence is educed another vice ---- that of
381 II, I | which it carefully shuns the effect. How many a one, in short,
382 II, VI | for itself)! a theft is effected! youth, wherein we have
383 II, XIII| tend by their softness and effeminacy to unman the manliness of
384 II, IX | enjoyment of your riches and elegancies, which tend so much to "
385 II, VII | miserable (as I am), may elevate my head, even though below (
386 II, IX | chastising, and (so to say) emasculating, the world. We are the circumcision ----
387 II, I | fellow-servantship and brotherhood ---- emboldens me to address to you a discourse,
388 I, I | dyed, and the Phrygians embroidered with the needle, and the
389 II, XIII| neck, beset with pearl and emerald nooses, will give no room
390 I, VII | with a view to ostentation. Emeralds lurk in their belts; and
391 II, XIII| of) darkness, and stand eminent amid them who are sunk down? [
392 I, II | promulgated the powers of enchantments, and had traced out every
393 II, IX | the ages have met, having ended their course." We have been
394 II, IX | are they "upon whom the ends of the ages have met, having
395 II, III | it will be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's
396 II, V | nothing from our personal enemies: soldiers eagerly desire
397 I, IX | glory. Thus they have withal enhanced the cost of things, in order
398 II, V | simplicity in every form is enjoined! ---- to lie in your appearance, (
399 II, I | not about modesty, for the enjoining and exacting of which the
400 I, VIII| follow that such ways of enjoying them among men (are so too).
401 II, IX | not keep within bounds the enjoyment of your riches and elegancies,
402 II, IX | wine and animal food, the enjoyments of which border upon no
403 II, VII | you affix I know not what enormities of subtle and textile perukes;
404 II, VII | you feel no shame at the enormity, feel some at the pollution;
405 I, II | on the women who had been enticed into connubial connection
406 II, X | the servant) who abstains entirely; who has a wholesome fear
407 II, II | your) neighbour's? " No enunciation of the Holy Spirit ought
408 II, VIII| now, I, a man, as being envious of women, am banishing them
409 I, IX | strength of ambition ---- (equal) to bearing on one small
410 II, XII | has raised so nearly to an equality with all the most honourable
411 II, X | God permitted them; that Esaias finds fault with no garment
412 II, X | humours of conchs! It had escaped Him, when He was bidding
413 I, VII | criminals) in their convict establishments chained with gold, and to
414 II, II | committed on some man's estate, the (actual) crime indeed
415 I, V | operation; in order that, in the estimation of nature, the substance
416 II, VI | 4] Here is a veritable eternity, in the (perennial) youth
417 II, IX | and seal themselves up to eunuchhood for the sake of the kingdom
418 I, IX | Ambition and Its Attendant Evils.~[1] For, as some particular
419 II, IV | a believer, he does not exact it: if for an unbeliever,
420 II, I | modesty, for the enjoining and exacting of which the divine precepts
421 II, IV | 2] Every husband is the exactor of chastity; but beauty,
422 II, IX | been the wont of glory to exalt, not to humble. [6] "Why,
423 I, IV | carnal marriage: let us examine the qualities of the things
424 I, V | glory, why, iron and brass excel them; whose usefulness is
425 II, IX | Chapter IX. ---- Excess in Dress, as Well as in
426 II, II | conscience: why therefore excite toward yourself that evil (
427 II, X | joined with their rarity, excited their costliness, and hence
428 I, IX | in the eyes of strangers, excites, from the simple fact of
429 II, VIII| Chapter VIII. ---- Men Not Excluded from These Remarks on Personal
430 I, VI | understood than some hard, round excrescence of the fish. Some say, too,
431 I, VIII| which descends from God, excuse (that use) as foreign to
432 II, II | to be desired, but even execrated, by you: first, because
433 I, IX | slender lobes of the ears exhaust a fortune; and the left
434 II, XI | all pomps (of dress) are exhibited before the public eye; either
435 II, I | men ---- consists in the exhibition principally of modesty.
436 II, XI | occasions which call for such exhibitions? For you neither make the
437 II, IX | are any of you whom the exigencies of riches, or birth, or
438 II, I | modesty can be believed (to exist) in Gentiles, it is plain
439 I, I | reward of faith which is expected in the heavens, no one of
440 II, X | lawful, but not all are expedient." How much more easily will
441 I, I | to lie so largely, Eve, expelled from paradise, (Eve) already
442 II, II | a wickedness) which God expels from them who are His; (
443 II, X | be the means whereby the experimental trials of continence should
444 I, I | she might the more fully expiate that which she derives from
445 II, III | it be thought (to be) not exposed to temptations, not surrounded
446 II, XI | and sanctity, requiring no extraordinary attire, with (studious)
447 II, I | to relax into licentious extravagances of attire; just in accordance
448 II, IX | world was, (to arise) in the extreme end of the times. And so
449 II, I | were no need for anything extrinsic to boot ---- in the matter (
450 II, VII | that day" of Christian exultation, I, most miserable (as I
451 II, XIII| joys in being seen, and exults over the very pointings
452 I, II | wherewith the eyelids and eyelashes are made prominent. [2]
453 II, X | instructions), in (the virtues of) eyelid-powder and the dyeings of fleeces,
454 I, II | powder itself wherewith the eyelids and eyelashes are made prominent. [
455 I, III | have been restored through Ezra.~[3] But since Enoch in
456 I, VIII| barbarians cause the glory to fade from the colours of our
457 II, II | apprehend that we may possibly fail, than to presume that we
458 II, IX | hand, if natural beauty fails, the supporting aid of outward
459 I, VII | pearls on their boots are fain to get lifted out of the
460 II, VII | skilful manufacturers of false hair. God bids you "be veiled."
461 II, II | wife's grace; and Isaac, by falsely representing Rebecca as
462 I, V | antiquity still preserves (the fame of) certain vessels for
463 II, I | even this is a practice familiar to Gentile modesty ---- (
464 II, X | conducted? Do not wise heads of families purposely offer and permit
465 I, VIII| of course ought not to be fashioned. Those things, then, are
466 I, V | means of gold, nor the ship fastened together by the strength
467 I, IV | pomp by the (fact of the) fate of its authors; let nothing
468 II, XIII| to hate what mined your fathers; what was adored by them
469 II, X | them; that Esaias finds fault with no garment of purple,
470 I, IX | He willed, ever finding favour in the eyes of strangers,
471 II, II | apprehending will lead us to fear, fearing to caution, and caution
472 I, VIII| wine, and the fire which feeds (thereon), and the animals
473 I, VII | and the rest of their own fellow-countrymen, only that (their gems)
474 II, I | Handmaids of the living God, my fellow-servants and sisters, the right which
475 II, I | meanest in that right of fellow-servantship and brotherhood ---- emboldens
476 II, II | other, as soon as he has felt concupiscence after your
477 I, IX | in them there is no such fervid longing for a glory which,
478 I, V | all events, neither is the field tilled by means of gold,
479 I, IX | ordered as He willed, ever finding favour in the eyes of strangers,
480 II, XI | and Hence for Dressing in Fine Array as Gentiles. On the
481 II, X | introduced (the fashion of) finely-cut wounds for the ears, and
482 I, IX | left hand, with its every finger, sports with a several money-bag.
483 II, II | warily, possesses no safe and firm security; whereas he who
484 I, VI | round excrescence of the fish. Some say, too, that gems
485 II, VII | pollution; for fear you may be fitting on a holy and Christian
486 II, VIII| down all over the body; to fix (each particular hair) in
487 II, VI | for themselves with their flame-coloured head, and think that graceful
488 I, I | gleamed, and onyx-stones flashed; if gold itself also had
489 II, X | not, as the Gentiles do, flatter ourselves with thinking
490 II, XIII| plenitude to be, that it may flow out from the mind to the
491 II, VII | to let it hang loose and flying; not with good simplicity:
492 II, V | desire nothing from the foes of their own general; for,
493 I, VIII| it does not immediately follow that such ways of enjoying
494 II, VI | from Wisdom's daughters be folly so great! The more old age
495 I, I | are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first
496 I, VI | gems are culled from the foreheads of dragons, just as in the
497 I, IX | desired: (desired) among foreigners, as being rarities; neglected (
498 II, X | Now, granting that God did foresee these things; that God permitted
499 I, IX | delicate neck carries about it forests and islands. The slender
500 I, V | of mines, and needing a forging process in every use (to
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