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CHAP. IX. Me8s in drras, as weli as in personat culture, tobe ahunnia. Arguments drawn froni 1 Cor. vii. Wherelare, Willi rogard to clothing also, and ali the r maining lumber of your seli laboration,y the lita pruning Ossand retrencliment of too redundant splendour must be theobject of your care. For What boota it to exhibit in yo face temperance and unaffectedness, and a simplici ait gether Worthy of the divino disciplino, but is invest ali theother paris of the body vrith the luxurious absurdities os pomps and delicacies Ηow intimato is the connection hicli these pomps havo with tho business os Voluptuousness, and hoW they intersere mitti modesty, is eastly discerniblofrom tho faet that it is by tho alliod aid of dress that theyprostitute the grace of personat cometinem : so plain is it thal
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λ 1 Cor. x. 11, εἰς ους ται τελη των αιωνων κατηντησεν.
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CHAP. X. Tertullian refers again to the question of tke ORIGINU ali these ornamenta and embellishmentsI
or parting the hair; God Who introducta filio fashion o
of Whicli carries you aWay, serves a certain raco so Gentilaliteraturo telis us) for chainst So trus is it that it is notintrinsic mortii,' but rari , which constitutes the goodness fosthese thingsJ : the excessive labour, moreover, of Working them With aris introduced by the means of the sinsul angeis, Who mere the revealore Withal of tho materiat substances thenaseivos, joined With their rarity, excited their costliness, and henco a lust on the part os Women to possess Dina costliness. But, ii tho selffame angels who disci ad boththo materiat substances of this hind and thoir charms fgold, I mean, and lustrous A stones and taught men hoW to
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TERTULLIANUS thinga os those fangelM Whο, on these accounts, have pr Vohed the anger and the Oengeanee of God l W, granting that God did foreseo these things; stat God permitted them ; that Esaias finda fauit mitti no ga
ment of purple,y represses no cois,' reprobates no crescen
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pur se of transacting the trade of Voluptuousness, or else of inflating glo .' nu, hoWever, have no cause of appea ing in public, excepi such as is serious. Elther some brother Who is sicli is visited, or elso the sacrifice is offered, or elso
the word of God is dispensed. Whichover of these you lihoto namo is a business of sobriotyy and sanctity, requiring noextraordinary attire, With studiousJ arrangement anil WantonJ negligence.' And is the requirements of Gentilo triendships
hom our old stylo and drem.' Let us, then, not abolish ourold vicosi tot us maintain the fame character, is Wε must
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whom, albeit somo laws mere flamerlyJ Wont in restrianthem frem the uso OH matrimoniai and matronly decor tions, noW, at ali evenis, the datly increasing depravi ty of the ago in has mised so nearly to an equali ty With ait the most honourable momen, that the dissiculty is to distinguisti them. Αnd yet, even the Scriptures suggest sto us the reflectionJ,
that meretricious attractivenesses of form are inVariably eo
suchJ. Whence me gather an additional confirmation of tholesson, that provision must be made in every Way against allimmodest associations ' and suspicions. For why is the i
the appearance os a modest Woman :' to assume that os animmodest is, at ali evenis, not la fui.
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Comp. John v. 34; 1 Cor. iv. 3. Comp. 1 Sam. xvi. 7 ; Jer. xxii. 10 ; Luhe xvi. 15. . See Phil. iv. 5, 8; Rom. xii. 17; 2 Cor. viii. 21. 3 Seo Hait. V. 16; and comp. de uol. c. xv. ad init. si Hati. v. 14. ' Mati. v. 15 ; Maa iv. 21; Line viii. 16, xi. 33.7 See Jota iii. 21. ' Supellectilem. ' Effeminari virtus.
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arrayed in tho cosmetios and ornamenta os propheta and
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most excellent emperors' mas being dispensed in the camp; the soldiers, laurei-c Wned, Werct approaching. One of them, more a soldier of God, moro stediast than the rest os his brethren, Who had imagined that they could serve two masters, his head HoneuncOVered, the uselem croWn in his hand-already even is that peculiari hnoWn to every one as a Christian-Wasnobly conspicuous. Accordingly, ali began to mark him out, jeering him at a distance, gnashing on him near at hand. The murmur is Wafted to the tribune, When the person had just lest tho ranks. The tribuno at onco putis the question tollim, Why are Fou so different in your attire He declared that ho had no liborty to mear tho crown With the rest. Boingurgently asked for his reasons, he ans ered, I am a Christian. O soldieri boasting thysed in God. Then the case Was considered and voted on; the matter Was remitted to a higher tribunal; tho offender Was conducted to the presecis. At
Whicli mas not necessisy either for the protection os o
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334 TERTULLIANUS sharper Word oi God, completely equipped in the apostles'
alone brave among so many soldier-brethren, he alone a
Christian. R is plain that as they have rejected the prophecies of the Holy Spirit, they are also purposing the
retusal of martyrdom. So they murmur that a peace sogood and long is endangered for them. Nor do I doubi that some are atready turning their bach on the Scriptures, aro
about which Wo are non chiefly inquiring got iis authori . But When the question is raised why it is observed, it is meanWhilo evident that it is observed. Thereiore that can