Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What reason is there in the law’s prohibiting a man from “wearing\r\nwoman’s clothing?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_181\" id=\"FNanchor_181\">[181]</a> Is it not that it would have us to be manly,\r\nand to be effeminate neither in person and actions, nor in thought\r\nand word? For it would have the man, that devotes himself to the\r\ntruth, to be masculine both in acts of endurance and patience, in\r\nlife, conduct, word, and discipline by night and by day; even if the\r\nnecessity were to occur, of witnessing by the shedding of his blood.\r\nAgain, it is said, “If any one who has newly built a house, and has not\r\npreviously inhabited it; or cultivated a newly-planted vine, and not\r\nyet partaken of the fruit; or betrothed a virgin, and not yet married\r\nher;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_182\" id=\"FNanchor_182\">[182]</a>—such the humane law orders to be relieved from military\r\nservice: from military reasons in the first place, lest, bent on\r\ntheir desires, they turn out sluggish in war; for it is those who are\r\nuntrammelled by passion that boldly encounter perils; and from motives\r\nof humanity, since, in view of the uncertainties of war, the law\r\nreckoned it not right that one should not enjoy his own labours, and\r\nanother should, without bestowing pains, receive what belonged to those\r\nwho had laboured. The law seems also to point out manliness of soul,\r\nby enacting that he who had planted should reap the fruit, and he that\r\nbuilt should inhabit, and he that had betrothed should marry: for it\r\nis not vain hopes which it provides for those who labour; according to\r\nthe gnostic word: “For the hope of a good man dead or living does not\r\nperish,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_183\" id=\"FNanchor_183\">[183]</a> says Wisdom; “I love them that love me; and they who seek\r\nme shall find peace,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_184\" id=\"FNanchor_184\">[184]</a> and so forth. What then? Did not the women\r\nof the Midianites, by their beauty, seduce from<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_50\">[50]</span> wisdom into impiety,\r\nthrough licentiousness, the Hebrews when making war against them? For,\r\nhaving seduced them from a grave mode of life, and by their beauty\r\nensnared them in wanton delights, they made them insane upon idol\r\nsacrifices and strange women; and overcome by women and by pleasure at\r\nonce, they revolted from God, and revolted from the law. And the whole\r\npeople was within a little of falling under the power of the enemy\r\nthrough female stratagem, until, when they were in peril, fear by its\r\nadmonitions pulled them back. Then the survivors, valiantly undertaking\r\nthe struggle for piety, got the upper hand of their foes. “The\r\nbeginning, then, of wisdom is piety, and the knowledge of holy things\r\nis understanding; and to know the law is the characteristic of a good\r\nunderstanding.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_185\" id=\"FNanchor_185\">[185]</a> Those, then, who suppose the law to be productive\r\nof agitating fear, are neither good at understanding the law, nor have\r\nthey in reality comprehended it; for “the fear of the Lord causes\r\nlife, but he who errs shall be afflicted with pangs which knowledge\r\nviews not.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_186\" id=\"FNanchor_186\">[186]</a> Accordingly, Barnabas says mystically, “May God who\r\nrules the universe vouchsafe also to you wisdom, and understanding,\r\nand science, and knowledge of His statutes, and patience. Be therefore\r\nGod-taught, seeking what the Lord seeks from you, that He may find you\r\nin the day of judgment lying in wait for these things.” “Children of\r\nlove and peace,” he called them gnostically.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XVIII. 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