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501 | former
502 | formerly
503 II, I | should be offended, and quite forsake the polluted abode. [2]
504 II, XIII| adored by them who were forsaking God. ~ ~
505 II, XI | offices call you, why not go forth clad in your own armour; (
506 I, IV | discussion) you may look forward and see what, out of (all)
507 I, V | to make utensils even for foul purposes. [3] At all events,
508 II, XI | been made more wealthy; and fouler, from the time when you
509 | found
510 II, II | runs more risk. Fear is the foundation of salvation; presumption
511 I, VI | necessary either for laying down foundations, or rearing party-walls,
512 I, VIII| to attach himself to the frenzies of the racecourse, or the
513 II, XI | requirements of Gentile friendships and of kindly offices call
514 I, IX | among its own home-folk, is frigid. But, however, the rareness
515 II, VIII| these things are rejected as frivolous, as hostile to modesty. [
516 II, III | because properly the use and fruit of beauty is voluptuousness,
517 I, IX | thereby) they might add fuel to themselves also; [3]
518 I, V | fire behind it, that, as a fugitive from the mine, it passes
519 II, IX | how will you be able to fulfil (the requirements of) humility,
520 II, XIII| provided it be true and full, loves not darkness: it
521 I, I | penitence she might the more fully expiate that which she derives
522 I, I | to swell the pomp of her funeral.~
523 I, II | consistency do we mount that (future) judgment-seat to pronounce
524 II, IX | meretricious and prostitutionary garbs and garments: and, in the
525 I, I | too. You are the devil's gateway: you are the unsealer of
526 II, XII | her as such). Whence we gather an additional confirmation
527 II, XI | sake of all these public gatherings, and of much seeing and
528 II, VI | assign them to Germany and to Gaul: thus, as it is, they transfer
529 II, VI | procreation did not assign them to Germany and to Gaul: thus, as it
530 I, VI | sea-snail, but ---- even the giant muscle. For let me add that
531 I, II | sentence against those whose gifts we (now) seek after? For
532 I, VI | supporting pediments, or giving density to roofs? The only
533 I, I | would have desired too gladsome (not to say too ostentatious)
534 II, II | equally dangerous to the glances of (the beholder's) eyes. [
535 I, I | with the loom, and pearls gleamed, and onyx-stones flashed;
536 I, V | itself is) plainly more glorious (than they), inasmuch as
537 I, V | silver. No mattock plunges a golden edge into the ground; no
538 II, II | art, as being a kind of goodly garment of the soul; yet
539 II, IX | compel to appear in public so gorgeously arrayed as not to appear
540 II, VI | flame-coloured head, and think that graceful which (in fact) they are
541 I, IV | what they call "womanly gracing; " by "ornament," what it
542 II, X | know not what (precious) grains, which, as we may plainly
543 II, XI | appearing in public in excessive grandeur, removed as you are from
544 II, III | Vainglorious, ~[1] Let it now be granted that excellence of form
545 I, II | sordid and ---- through gratuitous use ---- contumelious, if
546 I, III | tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather's "grace in the sight of
547 I, III | survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch himself; and he,
548 I, IX | concupiscence becomes proportionably greater as it has set a higher value
549 II, II | father of the faith, Abraham, greatly feared in regard of his
550 II, XIII| bracelet will endure till it grow into the numb hardness of
551 II, VI | imparting to the hair at once growth and dryness, is hurtful.
552 II, I | those who know not God, the Guardian and Master of truth, there
553 I, I | yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too.
554 II, XIII| to be squeezed into the gyve! I fear the neck, beset
555 I, IV | eagerly desired.~Female habit carries with it a twofold
556 I, IV | all) these, is suitable, handmaid of God, to your discipline,
557 I, VIII| violet-coloured and the grand royal hangings, which you laboriously undo
558 I, VII | belts; and the sword (that hangs) below their bosom alone
559 II, II | censured, as being a bodily happiness, as being an additional
560 I, VI | be understood than some hard, round excrescence of the
561 II, I | dissimulation, have the hardihood so to walk as if modesty
562 II, XIII| till it grow into the numb hardness of its own chain! I know
563 II, VI | moisture, lays up a store of harm for the head; while the
564 II, III | that there is some other harvest for bodily grace to reap.
565 II, VI | toward the Lord; well do you hasten to be quit of this most
566 II, XIII| of Israel. You ought to hate what mined your fathers;
567 II, IV | person, she will incur the hatred and aversion of husbands. [
568 I, VI | be which vie with gold in haughtiness, except little pebbles and
569 II, X | cautiously shall we act, if we hazard the presumption that all
570 II, VII | and in all that parade of headgear: whether it will be women
571 II, VI | Shall a Christian woman heap saffron on her head, as
572 I, VI | devil's head," while she heaps ornaments (taken) from his
573 I, III | and he, of course, had heard and remembered, from domestic
574 II, XIII| is the inspector of the heart." (That) we all know; provided,
575 I, II | had fallen, and, after the heated impulses of their lusts,
576 II, XIII| earthly ornaments if we desire heavenly. [6] Love not gold; in which (
577 II, X | themselves), were to be heavy in price alone; God who
578 I, VI | thus that she will set her heel on the devil's head," while
579 II, VII | below (the level of) your heels! I shall (then) see whether
580 I, VII | native limits they are not held of so high worth. Abundance
581 II, VII | perchance and destined to hell. Nay, rather banish quite
582 II, VII | now, after the manner of a helmet of undressed hide, as it
583 I, V | which they are put), are helpless without the laborious vigour
584 | hereafter
585 I, III | from domestic renown and hereditary tradition, concerning his
586 II, XII | and thus, because she was hidden beneath her "veil," ----
587 I, IX | greater as it has set a higher value upon the thing which
588 I, VII | stones that decorate its hilt; and the massive single
589 II, VIII| the hair, and disguise its hoariness by dyes; to remove all the
590 II, I | with evil even what they do hold fast. Necessary it is that
591 II, I | look to it, who, by not holding fast the whole good, easily
592 I, VIII| VIII. ---- The Same Rule Holds with Regard to Colours.
593 II, II | ought indeed to walk so holily, and with so entire substantiality
594 I, IX | glory which, among its own home-folk, is frigid. But, however,
595 II, VI | unless it is applied for honest, and necessary, and salutary
596 II, X | whether (they will do so) with honesty, or with moderation? [6]
597 I, V | embellishments, from ignominies to honours. [2] But iron, and brass,
598 II, XII | thing from which I am averse hoped for in me? Why does not
599 I, VIII| God has given to man the horse, and the panther, and the
600 II, VIII| rejected as frivolous, as hostile to modesty. [3] For where
601 II, X | juices of herbs and the humours of conchs! It had escaped
602 II, VI | once growth and dryness, is hurtful. What "grace" is compatible
603 I, IV | carries with it a twofold idea ---- dress and ornament. [
604 I, V | splendour, must necessarily be identical (in nature) with that out
605 II, III | modesty is, there beauty is idle; because properly the use
606 I, V | to embellishments, from ignominies to honours. [2] But iron,
607 II, I | all), either from simple ignorance or else from dissimulation,
608 I, II | when to an age much more ignorant (than ours) they had disclosed
609 I, VIII| derive from adulteration with illegitimate colours? That which He Himself
610 I, I | destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your
611 I, I | coveted these things, I imagine! No more, then, ought she
612 I, IX | another vice ---- that of immoderate having; because although,
613 II, VI | warmth, too, so desirable for imparting to the hair at once growth
614 II, II | salvation; presumption is an impediment to fear. [3] More useful,
615 II, I | is plain that it must be imperfect and undisciplined to such
616 II, VIII| the sake of men), there is implanted, by a defect of nature,
617 II, X | who produced such grand implements of gold for confining or
618 II, II | interest and that of others is implicated in the studious pursuit
619 II, II | our neighbour? why do we import concupiscence into our neighbour?
620 I, II | But why was it of so much importance to show these things as
621 II, XIII| Hardships Which They May Not Improbably Be Called to Suffer.~[1]
622 I, II | fallen, and, after the heated impulses of their lusts, looked up
623 II, VI | injury? "What "beauty" with "impurities? "Shall a Christian woman
624 I, IV | authors; let nothing be imputed to those angels besides
625 I, VIII| impunity either, because the incense, and the wine, and the fire
626 II, VIII| dyes; to remove all the incipient down all over the body;
627 I, I | toward thine husband (is) thy inclination, and he lords It over thee."
628 II, III | exaltation. Now exaltation is incongruous for professors of humility
629 II, VI | your head! Here we have an "incorruptibility" to "put on," with a view
630 II, XII | at all events, the daily increasing depravity of the age has
631 II, IV | of her person, she will incur the hatred and aversion
632 I, VI | from the British or the Indian sea, it is a kind of conch
633 I, VII | with whom, because gold is indigenous and plentiful, it is customary
634 I, IX | distributed by God over certain individual lands, and some one particular
635 II, IV | suspicion, just from that infamous opinion of us which the
636 II, II | himself aspersed with the infamy. [5] Are we to paint ourselves
637 II, X | the tortures of innocent infancy, learning to suffer with
638 II, XII | Else, (if you so do,) what inferiority would the poor unhappy victims
639 II, XI | voluptuousness, or else of inflating "glory." You, however, have
640 II, V | on a divine work Satan's ingenuities, how criminal is it! Our
641 II, I | for fear that the God who inhabits it should be offended, and
642 II, IX | as it were, from its own inherent power. [3] Those times of
643 II, VI | to be quit of this most iniquitous world, to whom it is unsightly
644 II, VI | grace" is compatible with "injury? "What "beauty" with "impurities? "
645 II, XIII| suited to retain faith as its inmate perpetually. For such delicacies
646 II, X | work and the tortures of innocent infancy, learning to suffer
647 I, VIII| so too). It is matter for inquiry not only whence come conchs,
648 I, V | made out of brass. Let the insane plenteousness of gold and
649 II, III | all "glory" is "vain" and insensate, how much more (glory) in
650 II, X | plainly see, the Parthians insert, in place of studs, upon
651 II, XIII| testimony of men: God is the inspector of the heart." (That) we
652 I, III | renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration, after it had been destroyed
653 I, III | edification is divinely inspired. By the Jews it may now
654 II, II | temptations, which, by their instancy, sometimes achieve (a wickedness)
655 | instead
656 II, X | them, among their other (instructions), in (the virtues of) eyelid-powder
657 II, II | sister, purchased safety by insult! ~
658 II, II | therefore, both our own interest and that of others is implicated
659 II, IX | voluptuousness, and how they interfere with modesty, is easily
660 I, VI | conch suffers from some internal pustule, that ought to be
661 I, VI | next place, what am I to interpret those jewels to be which
662 I, II | curious art, even to the interpretation of the stars ---- they conferred
663 I, IX | too, its name is to be interpreted, in that from concupiscence
664 II, IX | and delicacies? [2] How intimate is the connection which
665 II, X | true is it that it is not intrinsic worth, but rarity, which
666 II, XIII| Times of Persecution We Must Inure Our Bodies to the Hardships
667 II, XII | attractivenesses of form are invariably conjoined with and appropriate
668 II, IX | divine discipline, but to invest all the other parts of the
669 II, II | that evil (passion)? why invite (that) to which you profess
670 II, II | know to be naturally the inviter of lust) a mean of pleasing
671 II, II | his own wife's grace; and Isaac, by falsely representing
672 I, IX | carries about it forests and islands. The slender lobes of the
673 II, XIII| the sins of the people of Israel. You ought to hate what
674 II, X | universe to come into being, to issue a command for (the production
675 I, I | itself also had already issued, with the cupidity (which
676 I, III | after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming
677 I, III | divinely inspired. By the Jews it may now seem to have
678 II, X | material substances themselves, joined with their rarity, excited
679 II, XIII| loves not darkness: it joys in being seen, and exults
680 II, XII | adorned herself" that led Judah to regard her as a harlot,
681 I, III | testimony in the Apostle Jude. ~
682 I, II | their things with their judges? What commerce have they
683 I, II | advancement to the dignity of judging, does (the Lord) promise
684 I, II | do we mount that (future) judgment-seat to pronounce sentence against
685 II, X | way to dye wools with the juices of herbs and the humours
686 I, V | powers, in the service of juster causes. For not only are
687 II, XI | Gentile friendships and of kindly offices call you, why not
688 II, IX | eunuchhood for the sake of the kingdom of God, spontaneously relinquishing
689 I, V | penal labour in the deadly laboratories of accursed mines, and there
690 I, V | are helpless without the laborious vigour of iron and brass. [
691 I, VIII| royal hangings, which you laboriously undo and metamorphose. Purple
692 II, III | be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's sake, in order
693 I, VII | chained with gold, and to lade the wicked with riches ----
694 II, XIII| down? [2] If you hide your lamp beneath a bushel, you must
695 I, IX | over certain individual lands, and some one particular
696 I, I | already had licence to lie so largely, Eve, expelled from paradise, (
697 II, XII | you)? whom, albeit some laws were (formerly) wont to
698 I, IV | eye. Against the one we lay the charge of ambition,
699 I, VI | not necessary either for laying down foundations, or rearing
700 II, VI | any undrugged moisture, lays up a store of harm for the
701 II, II | cannot; for apprehending will lead us to fear, fearing to caution,
702 I, I | first "known the Lord," and learned (the truth) concerning her
703 II, X | tortures of innocent infancy, learning to suffer with its earliest
704 II, XII | and adorned herself" that led Judah to regard her as a
705 II, XIII| I know not whether the leg that has rejoiced in the
706 I, VIII| and justly, ) for what legitimate honour can garments derive
707 II, XII | additional confirmation of the lesson, that provision must be
708 II, IX | temper an evil of this kind; lest, under the pretext of necessity,
709 II, VII | even though below (the level of) your heels! I shall (
710 II, I | allows itself to relax into licentious extravagances of attire;
711 II, III | wherein our sphere of labour lies, let our joy lie. From the
712 I, VII | their boots are fain to get lifted out of the mud! In short,
713 I, VII | within their own native limits they are not held of so
714 II, V | in your own persons His lineaments?~
715 I, VI | gold in haughtiness, except little pebbles and stones and paltry
716 II, VI | such as repent of having lived to old age do attempt to
717 I, I | God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must
718 I, IX | and islands. The slender lobes of the ears exhaust a fortune;
719 I, IX | there is no such fervid longing for a glory which, among
720 I, II | impulses of their lusts, looked up toward heaven, thus requited
721 I, I | the Babylonians with the loom, and pearls gleamed, and
722 II, VII | curls, some to let it hang loose and flying; not with good
723 II, VII | which must now be bound, now loosed, now cultivated, now thinned
724 I, I | thy inclination, and he lords It over thee." And do you
725 II, V | he will be his in whose lore he eagerly desires to be
726 I, VII | prevent even gold from being loved! [2] We have also seen at
727 II, XIII| provided it be true and full, loves not darkness: it joys in
728 II, IX | also, and all the remaining lumber of your self-elaboration,
729 II, XIII| The things which make us luminaries of the world are these ----
730 II, IX | splendour and dignity of dress lure away (from that rest and
731 I, VII | to ostentation. Emeralds lurk in their belts; and the
732 II, X | of gold, I mean, and lustrous stones ---- and taught men
733 II, XIII| feel them; let us abandon luxuries, and we shall not regret
734 II, IX | parts of the body with the luxurious absurdities of pomps and
735 II, V | appearance, (you,) to whom (lying) with the tongue is not
736 | Makes
737 II, II | first, because the study of making personal grace (which we
738 II, XIII| what purpose, except that malice may have no access at all
739 II, XIII| effeminacy to unman the manliness of faith are to be discarded. [
740 II, VII | of all the most skilful manufacturers of false hair. God bids
741 II, X | devised by careful thought the manufactures of those very garments which,
742 I, IV | heaven and (their) carnal marriage: let us examine the qualities
743 II, VII | covering for the crown; now, a mass (drawn) backward toward
744 I, VII | decorate its hilt; and the massive single pearls on their boots
745 II, I | not God, the Guardian and Master of truth, there is nothing
746 I, II | be called teachings, ill masters must of necessity have taught
747 I, II | forsooth, made a grand match! [4] Assuredly they who,
748 I, V | brass; whereas those rich materials themselves, requiring both
749 II, XII | restrain them from (the use of) matrimonial and matronly decorations,
750 II, XII | use of) matrimonial and matronly decorations, now, at all
751 I, VII | blushing in the presence of our matrons at the contemptuous usage
752 II, I | sufficient; but about the matters which pertain to it, that
753 I, V | the strength of silver. No mattock plunges a golden edge into
754 II, I | with you ---- I, the most meanest in that right of fellow-servantship
755 I, I | garb, and rather to affect meanness of appearance, walking about
756 | meantime
757 II, V | limit and norm and just measure of cultivation of the person.
758 I, VII | usage of the Parthians and Medes, and the rest of their own
759 II, XIII| blessed (sisters), let us meditate on hardships, and we shall
760 II, VII | whom the angels carry up to meet Christ in the air If these (
761 II, II | after your beauty, and has mentally already committed (the deed)
762 II, II | servants, may the Lord by His mercy take care that to them it
763 II, XII | and very many waters, has merited from the Lord the appellation
764 I, IV | the Things on Their Own Merits.~[1] Grant now that no mark
765 II, IX | the ends of the ages have met, having ended their course."
766 I, V | as to earthly origin and metallurgic operation; in order that,
767 I, II | laid bare the operations of metallurgy, and had divulged the natural
768 I, V | Origin or in Utility to Other Metals.~[1] Gold and silver, the
769 I, VIII| you laboriously undo and metamorphose. Purple with them is more
770 I, III | given no other charge to Methuselah than that he should hand
771 II, XIII| we do not shine in (the midst of) darkness, and stand
772 II, V | practise adultery in your mien, (you,) who make modesty
773 I, I | beginning of the world the Milesians sheared sheep, and the Serians
774 | million
775 I, V | as a fugitive from the mine, it passes from torments
776 II, XIII| You ought to hate what mined your fathers; what was adored
777 II, I | fast the whole good, easily mingle with evil even what they
778 II, VII | Christian exultation, I, most miserable (as I am), may elevate my
779 II, X | so) with honesty, or with moderation? [6] But how far more praiseworthy (
780 II, VI | application of even any undrugged moisture, lays up a store of harm
781 II, VI | the Lord which the divine monarchy promises! Well do you speed
782 I, IX | finger, sports with a several money-bag. Such is the strength of
783 I, II | With what consistency do we mount that (future) judgment-seat
784 II, XIII| us to a city built upon a mountain; if we do not shine in (
785 II, XII | presides over the seven mountains and very many waters, has
786 I, I | appearance, walking about as Eve mourning and repentant, in order
787 II, VIII| to shave round about (the mouth); to arrange the hair, and
788 I, II | crude and rude, had moved (the mind of) angels? or
789 I, VII | to get lifted out of the mud! In short, they carry nothing
790 I, VI | but ---- even the giant muscle. For let me add that I know
791 I, VI | because they) render to gold a mutual assistance in meretricious
792 I, IX | particular tract of sea, are mutually foreign one to the other,
793 I, V | edge into the ground; no nail drives a silver point into
794 II, VI | ashamed even of their own nation, (ashamed) that their procreation
795 I, II | radiances of jewels wherewith necklaces are variegated, and the
796 II, VII | shield-bosses, to be piled upon your necks! If you feel no shame at
797 II, I | fornication; and there were no need for anything extrinsic to
798 I, V | dug up out of mines, and needing a forging process in every
799 I, I | Phrygians embroidered with the needle, and the Babylonians with
800 I, V | unnoticed the fact that the needs of our whole life are dependent
801 II, III | if you have it not, and neglect if you have. Let a holy
802 II, II | paint ourselves out that our neighbours may perish? Where, then,
803 | never
804 II, VI | on," with a view to the new house of the Lord which
805 I, VII | have also seen at Rome the nobility of gems blushing in the
806 I, V | be judged not a whit more noble (than theirs). But if it
807 II, XIII| beset with pearl and emerald nooses, will give no room to the
808 II, V | slovenliness; but of the limit and norm and just measure of cultivation
809 II, XIII| endure till it grow into the numb hardness of its own chain!
810 I, V | functions of their own more numerous and more necessary to human
811 II, VI | even from white to black! O temerity! The age which
812 II, II | even natural grace must be obliterated by concealment and negligence,
813 II, III | her beauty), but even to obscure it. ~
814 II, XI | removed as you are from the occasions which call for such exhibitions?
815 I, VIII| is more paltry than red ochre; [2] (and justly, ) for
816 II, I | who inhabits it should be offended, and quite forsake the polluted
817 I, II | themselves, might become offensive to God. Sure they were that
818 II, X | heads of families purposely offer and permit some things to
819 II, XI | or else the sacrifice is offered, or else the word of God
820 II, XI | friendships and of kindly offices call you, why not go forth
821 II, VII | should be seen! [3] And oh that in "that day" of Christian
822 I, I | and pearls gleamed, and onyx-stones flashed; if gold itself
823 I, V | earthly origin and metallurgic operation; in order that, in the estimation
824 I, II | that they had laid bare the operations of metallurgy, and had divulged
825 II, IV | just from that infamous opinion of us which the Gentiles
826 I, II | and the medicaments of orchil with which wools are coloured,
827 I, IX | possessions which God has ordered as He willed, ever finding
828 I, I | gladsome (not to say too ostentatious) a style of dress; so as
829 II, II | Must Love Our Neighbour as Ourself.~[1] You must know that
830 II, II | as being an additional outlay of the divine plastic art,
831 II, XIII| appearance; so that even from the outside it may gaze, as it were,
832 II, V | person. There must be no overstepping of that line to which simple
833 I, VI | than ---- I do not say the oyster and the sea-snail, but ----
834 II, II | that not merely must the pageantry of fictitious and elaborate
835 I, I | of human perdition. "In pains and in anxieties dost thou
836 II, II | the infamy. [5] Are we to paint ourselves out that our neighbours
837 I, VIII| to supply the place of painting, the Tyrian and the violet-coloured
838 II, XIII| to be surrounded with the palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till
839 I, VIII| to man the horse, and the panther, and the power of speech:
840 II, VII | saffron, and in all that parade of headgear: whether it
841 I, I | largely, Eve, expelled from paradise, (Eve) already dead, would
842 I, V | material substances, enjoy a parity of condition (with silver
843 I, VI | pebbles and stones and paltry particles of the self-same earth;
844 II, X | of gold for confining or parting the hair; God who introduced (
845 I, V | fugitive from the mine, it passes from torments to ornaments,
846 II, IX | fashion of this world is passing away." And "they who buy
847 II, IX | of riches, or birth, or past dignities, compel to appear
848 I, IX | caskets is produced an ample patrimony. On a single thread is suspended
849 II, I | course, of affection, but paving the way for affection in
850 I, VI | haughtiness, except little pebbles and stones and paltry particles
851 I, VI | party-walls, or supporting pediments, or giving density to roofs?
852 I, V | been tearfully wrought by penal labour in the deadly laboratories
853 I, I | order that by every garb of penitence she might the more fully
854 II, XIII| branded all the sins of the people of Israel. You ought to
855 II, VI | veritable eternity, in the (perennial) youth of your head! Here
856 II, IX | of which border upon no peril or solicitude; but they
857 II, II | that our neighbours may perish? Where, then, is (the command), "
858 II, II | concupiscence pointed to, perishes; and you have been made
859 I, IX | perhaps, having may be permissible, still a limit is bound (
860 II, XIII| retain faith as its inmate perpetually. For such delicacies as
861 II, XIII| Especially in These Times of Persecution We Must Inure Our Bodies
862 II, V | appearance; nor are we seeking to persuade you of the good of squalor
863 I, I | divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not
864 II, I | about the matters which pertain to it, that is, the manner
865 I, III | be rejected by us which pertains to us; and we read that "
866 II, VII | enormities of subtle and textile perukes; now, after the manner of
867 II, I | which are not God's are perverse. [4] Let those women therefore
868 II, I | accordance with Gentile perversity, in craving after that of
869 I, I | the Tyrians dyed, and the Phrygians embroidered with the needle,
870 I, VI | to advantage, and careful piercing that they may hang; and (
871 II, VIII| place with (some) womanly pigment; to smooth all the rest
872 II, V | Appearance Lawful, Some Unlawful. Pigments Come Under the Latter Head.~[
873 II, VII | or shield-bosses, to be piled upon your necks! If you
874 II, X | provided at the beginning and placed in the world by God, in
875 I, V | drives a silver point into planks. I leave unnoticed the fact
876 II, V | God. Whatever, then, is plastered on (that), is the devil'
877 II, IV | IV. ---- Concerning the Plea of "Pleasing the Husband."~[
878 II, IV | to her own husband. She "pleased" him enough when she was
879 I, VIII| 4] For all those profane pleasures of worldly shows ---- as
880 II, XIII| For so great ought its plenitude to be, that it may flow
881 I, V | of brass. Let the insane plenteousness of gold and silver look
882 I, VII | because gold is indigenous and plentiful, it is customary to keep (
883 II, VIII| the beard too sharply; to pluck it out here and there; to
884 I, V | strength of silver. No mattock plunges a golden edge into the ground;
885 II, II | which his concupiscence pointed to, perishes; and you have
886 II, XIII| and exults over the very pointings which are made at it. [3]
887 II, I | offended, and quite forsake the polluted abode. [2] But on the present
888 II, VI | which (in fact) they are polluting! [2] Nay, moreover, the
889 II, VII | enormity, feel some at the pollution; for fear you may be fitting
890 II, XII | what inferiority would the poor unhappy victims of the public
891 I, III | just like all the other (portions) nearly which tell of Christ.
892 I, IX | of that distribution of possessions which God has ordered as
893 II, III | neither troublesome to its possessors, nor destructive to its
894 II, II | to apprehend that we may possibly fail, than to presume that
895 I, III | knowledge of them to his posterity. Noah therefore, no doubt,
896 II, I | granting that even this is a practice familiar to Gentile modesty ---- (
897 II, III | may (we) not enjoy the praise of beauty alone, and glory
898 II, X | moderation? [6] But how far more praiseworthy (the servant) who abstains
899 II, VI | object of our wishes and prayers blushes (for itself)! a
900 II, XII | me? Why does not my garb pre-announce my character, to prevent
901 I, IV | Grant now that no mark of pre-condemnation has been branded on womanly
902 I, II | even here to prejudge, by pre-condemning their things, which we are
903 I, III | in the same Scripture has preached likewise concerning the
904 I, III | the trusteeship of (his) preaching; or, had the case been otherwise,
905 I, III | and concerning all his preachings; since Enoch had given no
906 I, V | and silver, since they get precedence over material substances
907 II, IX | their course." We have been predestined by God, before the world
908 I, II | then, we begin even here to prejudge, by pre-condemning their
909 II, IX | Because he had laid down the premiss, saying, "The time is wound
910 II, VII | contending against the Lord's prescripts! It has been pronounced
911 II, II | into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (to it). [
912 I, III | things) made by God, his Preserver, and concerning the particular
913 I, V | memory of antiquity still preserves (the fame of) certain vessels
914 II, XII | That powerful state which presides over the seven mountains
915 II, I | the divine precepts which press (upon us) on every side
916 II, II | that it will). For he who presumes feels less apprehension;
917 II, II | in us to the end, yet not presuming (that it will). For he who
918 II, IX | this kind; lest, under the pretext of necessity, you give the
919 I, IX | Otherwise We Become the Prey of Ambition and Its Attendant
920 II, X | themselves), were to be heavy in price alone; God who produced
921 I, VI | how to rear is this silly pride of women: because they require
922 II, I | Modesty is the sacristan and priestess of that temple, who is to
923 II, XII | who are called modesty's priestesses, should appear in public
924 I, V | 1] Gold and silver, the principal material causes of worldly
925 II, I | consists in the exhibition principally of modesty. For since, by
926 II, XIII| through the apostle: "Let your probity appear before men." For
927 I, V | mines, and needing a forging process in every use (to which they
928 II, VI | nation, (ashamed) that their procreation did not assign them to Germany
929 I, IX | and that a woman's, the product of so copious wealth.~
930 II, X | issue a command for (the production of) purple and scarlet sheep!
931 II, V | from your schoolings and professions are (these things)! How
932 II, III | exaltation is incongruous for professors of humility according to
933 I, II | their good fortune might profit them nothing; but that,
934 II, IX | Are there not some who prohibit to themselves (the use of)
935 II, IX | use what is our own? "Who prohibits your using it? Yet (it must
936 I, II | judging, does (the Lord) promise you. Unless, then, we begin
937 I, II | self-same angelic nature promised as your reward, the self-same
938 II, VI | which the divine monarchy promises! Well do you speed toward
939 I, II | properties of herbs, and had promulgated the powers of enchantments,
940 I, II | future) judgment-seat to pronounce sentence against those whose
941 II, VII | prescripts! It has been pronounced that no one can add to his
942 II, X | means of putting to the proof the discipline of His servants,
943 I, II | had divulged the natural properties of herbs, and had promulgated
944 I, III | the Genuineness of "The Prophecy of Enoch." ~[1] I am aware
945 II, IV | you will please them in proportion as you take no care to please
946 I, IX | for concupiscence becomes proportionably greater as it has set a
947 I, IV | the Authors, Tertullian Proposes to Consider the Things on
948 II, IX | your use meretricious and prostitutionary garbs and garments: and,
949 I, II | natural beauty, as (having proved) a cause of evil, in order
950 II, XII | confirmation of the lesson, that provision must be made in every way.
951 II, X | on these accounts, have provoked the anger and the vengeance
952 II, IX | self-elaboration, the like pruning off and retrenchment of
953 I, V | torments to ornaments, from punishments to embellishments, from
954 II, II | representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased safety by insult! ~
955 II, VII | flesh and spirit sole and pure. Whatever, therefore, does
956 II, X | not wise heads of families purposely offer and permit some things
957 I, VI | suffers from some internal pustule, that ought to be regarded
958 II, X | there should now be means of putting to the proof the discipline
959 I, IV | marriage: let us examine the qualities of the things themselves,
960 I, II | connection with them? But these questions admit of no calculation.
961 II, IX | which are at last blest with quiet and withdrawn into the harbour
962 II, VI | well do you hasten to be quit of this most iniquitous
963 II, X | you away, serves a certain race (so Gentile literature.
964 I, VIII| himself to the frenzies of the racecourse, or the atrocities of the
965 I, II | womanly ostentation, the radiances of jewels wherewith necklaces
966 II, XII | depravity of the age has raised so nearly to an equality
967 I, IX | frigid. But, however, the rareness and outlandishness which
968 I, IX | among foreigners, as being rarities; neglected (rightly), if
969 I, III | which pertains to us; and we read that "every Scripture suitable
970 II, XIII| regret them. Let us stand ready to endure every violence,
971 I, VII | wealthy. At last there has really been found a way to prevent
972 II, III | harvest for bodily grace to reap. Are women who think that,
973 I, VI | edifice which they know how to rear is this silly pride of women:
974 I, VI | laying down foundations, or rearing party-walls, or supporting
975 I, II | these, of course, are the reasons why they have deserved to
976 II, II | by falsely representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased
977 I, III | rejecting it), let them recall to their memory that Noah,
978 I, III | action) to angels, is not received by some, because it is not
979 II, IX | of your dowries, before (receiving) the knowledge of saving
980 I, IX | one to the other, they are reciprocally either neglected or desired: (
981 II, VII | rising bodies, and will recognise their several places. But
982 I, IX | which (as we have said) is recommended neither by nature nor by
983 I, VIII| them is more paltry than red ochre; [2] (and justly, )
984 II, IX | and retrenchment of too redundant splendour must be the object
985 II, X | Chapter X. ---- Tertullian Refers Again to the Question of
986 II, XII | Scriptures suggest (to us the reflection), that meretricious attractivenesses
987 II, I | yet still not quite to refuse ---- what wonder? for all
988 II, VI | black a white? " And so they refute the Lord! "Behold!" say
989 I, VI | pustule, that ought to be regarded rather as its defect than
990 II, IV | on the other hand, even regards with suspicion, just from
991 II, XIII| luxuries, and we shall not regret them. Let us stand ready
992 I, IX | God's Distribution Must Regulate Our Desires, Otherwise We
993 II, IX | necessity, you give the rein without stint to the indulgence
994 I, III | that is the reason (for rejecting it), let them recall to
995 II, XIII| whether the leg that has rejoiced in the anklet will suffer
996 II, I | it yet allows itself to relax into licentious extravagances
997 II, IX | kingdom of God, spontaneously relinquishing a pleasure so honourable,
998 II, IX | clothing also, and all the remaining lumber of your self-elaboration,
999 II, VIII| Not Excluded from These Remarks on Personal Adornment.~[
1000 II, XIII| know; provided, however, we remember what the same (God) has
1001 I, III | of course, had heard and remembered, from domestic renown and
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