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1002 II, VIII| its hoariness by dyes; to remove all the incipient down all
1003 II, XI | public in excessive grandeur, removed as you are from the occasions
1004 I, II | anything conducive to chastity, renegade spirits anything conducive
1005 I, III | Scripture: he could equally have renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration,
1006 I, II | angels whom in baptism we renounce: these, of course, are the
1007 I, III | remembered, from domestic renown and hereditary tradition,
1008 II, VI | grace." And yet such as repent of having lived to old age
1009 I, I | about as Eve mourning and repentant, in order that by every
1010 II, II | grace; and Isaac, by falsely representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased
1011 II, X | with no garment of purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped
1012 II, X | purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped neck
1013 I, IV | those angels besides their repudiation of heaven and (their) carnal
1014 I, II | looked up toward heaven, thus requited that very excellence of
1015 II, VIII| too, some things which, in respect of the sobriety we are to
1016 I, III | generally agreed to have been restored through Ezra.~[3] But since
1017 II, XII | were (formerly) wont to restrain them from (the use of) matrimonial
1018 II, XIII| such as to be suited to retain faith as its inmate perpetually.
1019 II, XIII| which are the bonds which retard our hope. Let us cast away
1020 II, IX | the like pruning off and retrenchment of too redundant splendour
1021 II, X | sinful angels, who were the revealers withal of the material substances
1022 II, X | what is unlawful who has a reverent dread of what is lawful?~
1023 I, V | and brass; whereas those rich materials themselves, requiring
1024 I, VII | short, they carry nothing so richly gemmed as that which ought
1025 I, IX | being rarities; neglected (rightly), if anywhere, among their
1026 I, V | causes. For not only are rings made of iron, but the memory
1027 II, VII | present themselves to the rising bodies, and will recognise
1028 II, II | less precaution runs more risk. Fear is the foundation
1029 II, II | attaching to it); as, when a robbery has been committed on some
1030 II, VII | your weight some kind of rolls, or shield-bosses, to be
1031 I, VII | 2] We have also seen at Rome the nobility of gems blushing
1032 I, VI | pediments, or giving density to roofs? The only edifice which
1033 II, XIII| emerald nooses, will give no room to the broadsword! [5] Wherefore,
1034 II, VIII| body by the aid of some rough powder or other: then, further,
1035 I, III | conservative power) by so short a route, there would (still) be
1036 I, VIII| violet-coloured and the grand royal hangings, which you laboriously
1037 II, V | to God. [2] For they who rub their skin with medicaments,
1038 I, VI | because they require slow rubbing that they may shine, and
1039 I, II | so to say ---- crude and rude, had moved (the mind of)
1040 II, VI | force of the cosmetics burns ruin into the hair; and the constant
1041 I, VIII| Chapter VIII. ---- The Same Rule Holds with Regard to Colours.
1042 II, XIII| quite in darkness, and be run against by many. The things
1043 II, II | who takes less precaution runs more risk. Fear is the foundation
1044 I, II | those angels, to wit, who rushed from heaven on the daughters
1045 II, I | of God," Modesty is the sacristan and priestess of that temple,
1046 II, II | time warily, possesses no safe and firm security; whereas
1047 I, III | the deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide
1048 II, II | as his sister, purchased safety by insult! ~
1049 II, VI | sacrifice. But, however, God saith, [3] "Which of you can make
1050 II, VI | honest, and necessary, and salutary uses, for which God's creature
1051 II, XI | business of sobriety and sanctity, requiring no extraordinary
1052 II, V | superinduce on a divine work Satan's ingenuities, how criminal
1053 II, II | neither fear nor caution to save us. He who acts securely,
1054 II, IX | receiving) the knowledge of saving disciplines. [8] We are
1055 I, VI | conch not more pleasing in savour than ---- I do not say the
1056 II, IX | had laid down the premiss, saying, "The time is wound up."
1057 II, X | in order that from those scars of the body ---- born for
1058 II, IX | of) humility, which our (school) profess, if you do not
1059 II, V | But how alien from your schoolings and professions are (these
1060 I, II | several not well-revealed scientific arts ---- if it is true
1061 I, VI | not say the oyster and the sea-snail, but ---- even the giant
1062 II, IX | withal, who so do, and seal themselves up to eunuchhood
1063 I, IX | to be observed). This (second vice) will be ambition;
1064 II, II | to save us. He who acts securely, and not at the same time
1065 II, II | possesses no safe and firm security; whereas he who is wary
1066 II, IX | disquiet seriousness by seductions of appetite, which compensate
1067 II, XI | gatherings, and of much seeing and being seen, that all
1068 II, V | of appearance; nor are we seeking to persuade you of the good
1069 II, IV | him enough when she was selected (by him as his wife); whether
1070 II, II | carnal) desire of one's self (on the part of others)
1071 II, IX | remaining lumber of your self-elaboration, the like pruning off and
1072 II, IX | times, what would be his sentiments about these vain appliances
1073 I, I | Milesians sheared sheep, and the Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians
1074 II, XI | public, except such as is serious. [2] Either some brother
1075 I, VI | grace to herself from the serpent! Is it thus that she will
1076 II, X | far more praiseworthy (the servant) who abstains entirely;
1077 I, V | but do also none the less serve the turn of gold and silver,
1078 I, IX | is suspended a million of sesterces. One delicate neck carries
1079 II, XII | which presides over the seven mountains and very many
1080 II, VII | your necks! If you feel no shame at the enormity, feel some
1081 II, XII | spirit from being wounded by shamelessness through (the channel of)
1082 II, VIII| as) to cut the beard too sharply; to pluck it out here and
1083 II, VIII| it out here and there; to shave round about (the mouth);
1084 I, I | the world the Milesians sheared sheep, and the Serians spun
1085 II, VII | undressed hide, as it were a sheath for the head and a covering
1086 II, VII | weight some kind of rolls, or shield-bosses, to be piled upon your necks!
1087 I, V | by means of gold, nor the ship fastened together by the
1088 II, X | of studs, upon their very shoes! [2] And yet even the gold
1089 II, X | It was God, no doubt, who showed the way to dye wools with
1090 II, I | that of which it carefully shuns the effect. How many a one,
1091 II, III | then, if voluptuousness be shut out and chastity let in,
1092 II, XI | Either some brother who is sick is visited, or else the
1093 II, I | press (upon us) on every side are sufficient; but about
1094 II, VI | wherein we have sinned, is sighed after! the opportunity of
1095 II, III | it may draw the eyes and sighs of youths after it. Thus (
1096 I, III | great-grandfather's "grace in the sight of God," and concerning
1097 I, III | he would not have been silent alike concerning the disposition (
1098 I, VI | know how to rear is this silly pride of women: because
1099 I, VIII| Has Appointed Them.~[1] Similarly, too, do even the servants
1100 I, VIII| turpitudes of the stage, simply because God has given to
1101 I, II | turned from simplicity and sincerity, they, together with (the
1102 II, X | introduced by the means of the sinful angels, who were the revealers
1103 II, VI | youth, wherein we have sinned, is sighed after! the opportunity
1104 I, II | their teachers: in that sinners could never have either
1105 II, XIII| substance) are branded all the sins of the people of Israel.
1106 II, II | representing Rebecca as his sister, purchased safety by insult! ~
1107 II, XII | with that appellation? She sits, to be sure, "in purple,
1108 II, VII | the aid of all the most skilful manufacturers of false hair.
1109 II, V | I suppose, the plastic skill of God is displeasing! In
1110 I, I | and above your tunics of skins? [3] Come, now; if from
1111 I, VIII| be born with purple and sky-blue fleeces! If He was able,
1112 II, VII | your "free" head all this slavery of ornamentation. In vain
1113 I, IX | forests and islands. The slender lobes of the ears exhaust
1114 I, VIII| even their party-walls use slightingly, to supply the place of
1115 II, VII | holy and Christian head the slough of some one else's head,
1116 II, V | the good of squalor and slovenliness; but of the limit and norm
1117 I, VI | women: because they require slow rubbing that they may shine,
1118 I, IX | equal) to bearing on one small body, and that a woman's,
1119 I, IX | eagerly desired. From the smallest caskets is produced an ample
1120 II, VIII| some) womanly pigment; to smooth all the rest of the body
1121 II, XIII| delicacies as tend by their softness and effeminacy to unman
1122 II, V | from our personal enemies: soldiers eagerly desire nothing from
1123 II, VII | except flesh and spirit sole and pure. Whatever, therefore,
1124 II, IX | border upon no peril or solicitude; but they sacrifice to God
1125 | something
1126 I, I | is, death ---- even the Son of God had to die. And do
1127 II, II | other. For that other, as soon as he has felt concupiscence
1128 I, II | the lovers would appear sordid and ---- through gratuitous
1129 II, II | pleasing does not spring from a sound conscience: why therefore
1130 II, II | goodness! [4] But why are we a (source of) danger to our neighbour?
1131 II, III | let our joy lie. From the sources whence we hope for salvation,
1132 I, III | receive some Scriptures which spake of Him whom even in person,
1133 II, I | present occasion we (are to speak) not about modesty, for
1134 I, VIII| panther, and the power of speech: just as a Christian cannot
1135 II, VI | monarchy promises! Well do you speed toward the Lord; well do
1136 II, VII | again, does all the labour spent in arranging the hair render
1137 I, II | conducive to chastity, renegade spirits anything conducive to the
1138 II, VI | opportunity of sobriety is spoiled! Far from Wisdom's daughters
1139 II, IX | sake of the kingdom of God, spontaneously relinquishing a pleasure
1140 I, IX | with its every finger, sports with a several money-bag.
1141 II, II | mean of pleasing does not spring from a sound conscience:
1142 I, I | sheared sheep, and the Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed,
1143 II, V | persuade you of the good of squalor and slovenliness; but of
1144 II, XIII| will suffer itself to be squeezed into the gyve! I fear the
1145 II, V | their skin with medicaments, stain their cheeks with rouge,
1146 I, II | the interpretation of the stars ---- they conferred properly
1147 II, VII | no one can add to his own stature. You, however, do add to
1148 II, X | the body ---- born for the steel! ---- should hang I know
1149 II, IX | you give the rein without stint to the indulgence of licence. [
1150 II, XII | and gold, and precious stone." How accursed are the things
1151 I, VI | fishes there is a certain stony substance. [3] This also
1152 II, VI | undrugged moisture, lays up a store of harm for the head; while
1153 I, III | Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document of
1154 II, IX | not had, on account of the straits of the times, what would
1155 II, II | which you profess yourself a stranger? secondly, because we ought
1156 II, III | naturally) given them, and to strive after it when not (thus)
1157 II, I | dress and ornament, the studied graces of form and brilliance: ----
1158 II, X | Parthians insert, in place of studs, upon their very shoes! [
1159 II, II | tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (to it). [2] We ought indeed
1160 II, III | temptations, not surrounded by stumbling-blocks: it is enough that to angels
1161 II, II | to be (confined) to the subject immediately in hand merely,
1162 II, II | holily, and with so entire substantiality of faith, as to be confident
1163 II, VII | know not what enormities of subtle and textile perukes; now,
1164 I, III | therefore, no doubt, might have succeeded in the trusteeship of (his)
1165 I, VI | if that (foreign) conch suffers from some internal pustule,
1166 II, XII | yet, even the Scriptures suggest (to us the reflection),
1167 II, V | the Latter Head.~[1] These suggestions are not made to you, of
1168 II, XIII| furniture) such as to be suited to retain faith as its inmate
1169 II, VI | for the head; while the sun's warmth, too, so desirable
1170 II, XIII| eminent amid them who are sunk down? [2] If you hide your
1171 II, III | look at it, is in your case superfluous, you may justly disdain
1172 II, V | is the devil's work. To superinduce on a divine work Satan's
1173 I, V | Gold and Silver Not Superior in Origin or in Utility
1174 I, II | never have either shown or supplied anything conducive to integrity,
1175 II, IX | of outward embellishment supplies a grace, as it were, from
1176 I, VIII| party-walls use slightingly, to supply the place of painting, the
1177 I, III | deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide calamity,
1178 I, III | their memory that Noah, the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson
1179 I, IX | patrimony. On a single thread is suspended a million of sesterces.
1180 II, XII | immodest associations and suspicions. For why is the integrity
1181 II, IV | please either one who is suspicious, or else one who desires
1182 I, VI | know conchs (which axe) sweet fruits of the sea. But if
1183 I, I | state, instituted as if to swell the pomp of her funeral.~
1184 I, VI | while she heaps ornaments (taken) from his head on her own
1185 | taking
1186 I, II | quality and condition of their teachers: in that sinners could never
1187 I, II | things) are to be called teachings, ill masters must of necessity
1188 I, V | is only after it has been tearfully wrought by penal labour
1189 I, III | portions) nearly which tell of Christ. Nor, of course,
1190 II, VI | even from white to black! O temerity! The age which is the object
1191 II, IX | attained wisdom, take heed to temper an evil of this kind; lest,
1192 II, IX | to exhibit in your face temperance and unaffectedness, and
1193 II, XI | make the circuit of the temples, nor demand (to be present
1194 II, II | Ourselves, We Must Not Put Temptation in the Way of Others. We
1195 II, I | although it be actively tenacious of itself in the mind up
1196 II, II | Will Abstain from Whatever Tends to Sin, as Well as from
1197 II, VII | enormities of subtle and textile perukes; now, after the
1198 II, XII | 3] It was the fact that Thamar "had painted out and adorned
1199 II, IX | that grace) bootless and thankless, as if it were disarmed
1200 | thee
1201 II, VI | blushes (for itself)! a theft is effected! youth, wherein
1202 | thereby
1203 I, VIII| and the fire which feeds (thereon), and the animals which
1204 II, X | garments which, light and thin (in themselves), were to
1205 | thine
1206 II, X | flatter ourselves with thinking that God is merely a Creator,
1207 II, III | voluptuousness, unless any one thinks that there is some other
1208 II, VII | loosed, now cultivated, now thinned out? Some are anxious to
1209 II, VI | they transfer their hair (thither)! Ill, ay, most ill, do
1210 II, II | events, put the spirit into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a
1211 | though
1212 I, IX | ample patrimony. On a single thread is suspended a million of
1213 II, II | shall love thy neighbour as thyself? " "Care not merely about
1214 II, XIII| palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till it grow into the numb hardness
1215 I, V | events, neither is the field tilled by means of gold, nor the
1216 II, V | to whom (lying) with the tongue is not lawful! ---- to seek
1217 II, X | so high a value upon the tormenting of His own work and the
1218 I, V | the mine, it passes from torments to ornaments, from punishments
1219 II, X | of His own work and the tortures of innocent infancy, learning
1220 I, IX | and some one particular tract of sea, are mutually foreign
1221 II, XI | purpose of transacting the trade of voluptuousness, or else
1222 I, III | domestic renown and hereditary tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather'
1223 II, IX | the times. And so we are trained by God for the purpose of
1224 II, XI | either for the purpose of transacting the trade of voluptuousness,
1225 II, VI | Gaul: thus, as it is, they transfer their hair (thither)! Ill,
1226 II, V | but he who by wickedness transfigured man's spirit? He it is,
1227 II, V | whose hand you are, is a transgression. Shall a Christian be assisted
1228 I, I | unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter
1229 I, I | sheep, and the Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed, and
1230 II, X | whereby the experimental trials of continence should be
1231 II, VII | whether it will be women thus tricked out whom the angels carry
1232 II, VIII| acknowledges to itself deceptive trickeries of form peculiarly its own, ---- (
1233 II, VI | great! The more old age tries to conceal itself, the more
1234 II, III | to be feared, as neither troublesome to its possessors, nor destructive
1235 I, III | might have succeeded in the trusteeship of (his) preaching; or,
1236 II, X | their servants in order to try whether and how they will
1237 II, II | the spirit into a thorough tumult by (presenting) a stumbling-block (
1238 I, I | yourself over and above your tunics of skins? [3] Come, now;
1239 I, II | nothing; but that, being turned from simplicity and sincerity,
1240 II, I | integrity of the flesh, and in turning away from (actual) fornication;
1241 I, VIII| atrocities of the arena, or the turpitudes of the stage, simply because
1242 I, IV | habit carries with it a twofold idea ---- dress and ornament. [
1243 I, VIII| the place of painting, the Tyrian and the violet-coloured
1244 I, I | Serians spun trees, and the Tyrians dyed, and the Phrygians
1245 II, IV | blessed (sisters): no wife is "ugly" to her own husband. She "
1246 I, VIII| pleasing to God, unless He was unable to order sheep to be born
1247 I, II | please men, who, while still unadorned, and uncouth and ---- so
1248 II, IX | your face temperance and unaffectedness, and a simplicity altogether
1249 II, IV | not exact it: if for an unbeliever, he does not believe in
1250 II, IV | think (to be) graces: an unbelieving one, on the other hand,
1251 I, II | while still unadorned, and uncouth and ---- so to say ----
1252 I, VI | they may shine, and artful underlaying that they may show to advantage,
1253 II, I | it must be imperfect and undisciplined to such a degree that, although
1254 I, VIII| hangings, which you laboriously undo and metamorphose. Purple
1255 II, V | man's spirit? He it is, undoubtedly, who adapted ingenious devices
1256 II, VII | the manner of a helmet of undressed hide, as it were a sheath
1257 II, VI | application of even any undrugged moisture, lays up a store
1258 II, XII | inferiority would the poor unhappy victims of the public lusts
1259 II, X | when He was bidding the universe to come into being, to issue
1260 II, XIII| softness and effeminacy to unman the manliness of faith are
1261 II, III | Still It is to Be Shunned as Unnecessary and Vainglorious, ~[1] Let
1262 I, V | point into planks. I leave unnoticed the fact that the needs
1263 I, I | devil's gateway: you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree:
1264 II, VI | iniquitous world, to whom it is unsightly to approach (your own) end!~
1265 II, XII | Meretricious, and Therefore Unsuitable to Modest Women.~[1] Let
1266 I, VIII| able, then plainly He was unwilling: what God willed not, of
1267 II, V | are (these things)! How unworthy the Christian name, to wear
1268 II, XI | modesty. [3] Well, but it is urged by some, "Let not the Name
1269 I, VII | matrons at the contemptuous usage of the Parthians and Medes,
1270 II, X | creatures. [5] For how far more usefully and cautiously shall we
1271 II, VI | necessary, and salutary uses, for which God's creature
1272 I, V | it, if it serves to make utensils even for foul purposes. [
1273 II, III | Shunned as Unnecessary and Vainglorious, ~[1] Let it now be granted
1274 I, I | him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed
1275 I, VII | Which Makes Such Things Valuable.~[1] It is only from their
1276 I, II | wherewith necklaces are variegated, and the circlets of gold
1277 II, XII | was hidden beneath her "veil," ---- the quality of her
1278 II, VII | false hair. God bids you "be veiled." I believe (He does so)
1279 II, X | provoked the anger and the vengeance of God?~[4] Now, granting
1280 II, VI | detected. [4] Here is a veritable eternity, in the (perennial)
1281 I, V | preserves (the fame of) certain vessels for eating and drinking
1282 I, IX | nature nor by truth, but by a vicious passion of the mind, ---- (
1283 I, VI | those jewels to be which vie with gold in haughtiness,
1284 I, V | helpless without the laborious vigour of iron and brass. [4] Already,
1285 I, V | and brass, and other the vilest material substances, enjoy
1286 I, VIII| painting, the Tyrian and the violet-coloured and the grand royal hangings,
1287 II, X | instructions), in (the virtues of) eyelid-powder and the
1288 II, XI | some brother who is sick is visited, or else the sacrifice is
1289 I, VIII| have already published a volume of their own about them ---- (
1290 II, VIII| wish to please by means of voluptuous attraction, all these things
1291 I, IV | Chapter IV. ---- Waiving the Question of the Authors,
1292 I, I | meanness of appearance, walking about as Eve mourning and
1293 II, XI | became a Christian, she walks in poorer garb!" Will you
1294 II, XI | studious) arrangement and (wanton) negligence. And if the
1295 II, II | and not at the same time warily, possesses no safe and firm
1296 II, VI | the head; while the sun's warmth, too, so desirable for imparting
1297 II, IX | accordance with the apostle, who warns us "to use this world as
1298 I, III | this (consideration) to warrant our assertion of (the genuineness
1299 II, II | security; whereas he who is wary will be truly able to be
1300 II, XII | mountains and very many waters, has merited from the Lord
1301 I, IX | the product of so copious wealth.~
1302 II, V | unworthy the Christian name, to wear a fictitious face, (you,)
1303 II, VII | however, do add to your weight some kind of rolls, or shield-bosses,
1304 I, II | they had disclosed certain well-concealed material substances, and
1305 I, II | substances, and several not well-revealed scientific arts ---- if
1306 | whereby
1307 II, XI | word of God is dispensed. Whichever of these you like to name
1308 I, V | silver may be judged not a whit more noble (than theirs).
1309 | whoever
1310 II, X | abstains entirely; who has a wholesome fear even of his lord's
1311 I, VII | with gold, and to lade the wicked with riches ---- the more
1312 II, V | into an entire crudity and wildness of appearance; nor are we
1313 II, VI | make it yellow, ---- more winning in grace." And yet such
1314 II, X | should be conducted? Do not wise heads of families purposely
1315 II, VI | which is the object of our wishes and prayers blushes (for
1316 I, II | death, ---- those angels, to wit, who rushed from heaven
1317 II, IX | last blest with quiet and withdrawn into the harbour of modesty,
1318 I, VII | below their bosom alone is witness to the cylindrical stones
1319 II, IX | shows plainly that even wives themselves are so to be
1320 I, III | of course, is this fact wonderful, that they did not receive
1321 II, XI | is offered, or else the word of God is dispensed. Whichever
1322 II, X | excessive labour, moreover, of working them with arts introduced
1323 I, VIII| made the victims, are God's workmanship; since even the material
1324 I, III | have safely survived that world-wide calamity, the abolisher
1325 I, VII | gems) are not generally worn with a view to ostentation.
1326 II, IX | a simplicity altogether worthy of the divine discipline,
1327 II, IX | premiss, saying, "The time is wound up." If, then he shows plainly
1328 II, XII | prevent my spirit from being wounded by shamelessness through (
1329 II, X | the fashion of) finely-cut wounds for the ears, and set so
1330 II, IX | if it were disarmed and wrecked. On the other hand, if natural
1331 II, XIII| I know not whether the wrist that has been wont to be
1332 I, V | after it has been tearfully wrought by penal labour in the deadly
1333 II, X | Chapter X. ---- Tertullian Refers
1334 II, XI | Chapter XI. ---- Christian Women, Further,
1335 II, XII | Chapter XII. ---- Such Outward Adornments
1336 II, XIII| Chapter XIII. ---- It is Not Enough that
1337 | ye
1338 II, VI | white or black, we make it yellow, ---- more winning in grace."
1339 | yours
1340 II, III | draw the eyes and sighs of youths after it. Thus (a thing)
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